Today’s [BBC writeup][1] of the $100 laptop revealed that not only will the laptop be inexpensive, it will be built to withstand the riggors of dusty, damaging environments and outdoors use, and it will also have a key dedicated to **view-source:**

> [T]he keyboard does away with low-use keys such as Caps Lock. In their place are new buttons such as the “geek key” or “view source”, which allows children to quickly see the underlying code used to write the program running on screen.

[1]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6679431.stm “Factfile: XO laptop”

Coming from an [international development background][2], I was predisposed to liking the cheap laptop being built for use by children in less developed regions of the world, but notice that the machine will be built to encourage kids to peek under the hood in websites and even applications that run on the machine especially warmed my heart. I learned how to markup websites from viewing the source of popular pages like [A List Apart][3] and [Yahoo][4], and I’m sure that by coaxing the $100 laptop’s user’s begin tinkering with code themselves, we’ll soon have great new website and applications coming from young coders coming from regions currently under-represented in the technology world.

_[Via Coudal][5]_

[2]: /about/ “About me”
[3]: http://alistapart.com/ “A List Apart”
[4]: http://yahoo.com/ “Yahoo”
[5]: http://coudal.com/