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Why are jQuery source view pages not allowed as hyper-links on Stack Overflow?

Is it for browser compatibility concerns? Or is it perhaps for the same reason Stack Overflow disallows links to jsFiddle without code in the post?

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It has nothing to do with jQuery source links. This:

http://view-source:http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.1/jquery-ui.js

is not a valid URL, which is what the script is actually complaining about.

To actually view the source, you would use solely the view-source browser scheme, like so:

view-source:code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.1/jquery-ui.js

That URI scheme is not allowed on the network and will not even render as a link when used (only plain text). There's really no reason to allow it, as there's rarely ever a circumstance wherein it's actually useful to reference a live file somewhere on the web and point to a line number. In fact, I'm not entirely convinced it's even useful here. It'd probably be far better off to just extract a small section out of that file which contains the line you're referencing.

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I'm pretty sure the correct view-source: URI would be view-source:http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.1/jquery-ui.js. Yes, there's (effectively) a double scheme, because to view the source, the browser needs to know the scheme (http) of the original URI. –  Ilmari Karonen Oct 12 '14 at 12:25
    
@Ilmari True, but most browsers nowadays chop off the http. You would have to includd it if it were https. –  animuson♦ Oct 12 '14 at 13:24

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