[madeofpalk]

I get what you're saying now, but I believe you're mistaken about "View Source".

I've never seen "View Page Source" or "Show Page Source" be the current DOM representation. It's always the HTML what came over the wire, the same you'll get from curl (unless the server is going user agent shenanigans, which I think we can agree is out of scope here).

If you're talking about the page after Javascript is ran, the only way you're seeing that is by opening the dev tools and looking in the 'Elements' or 'Inspector' panel.

I just checked in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox and found this to be true in all of them. The distinction between the View Source and DOM Inspector is very clear.