Re: [TCLUG:21120] wyswyg html editors

[Philip C Mendelsohn <mend0070@tc.umn.edu>]

On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Andy Zbikowski wrote:

> WYSWYG = What You See is What You Get 
> The good: any Joe Schmoe who can use a word processor can create webpages.
> The bad: any Joe Schmoe who can use a word processor can create webpages.
> 
> And I have to agree with Scott, pulling the formating AND content out of
> html is great. (The joys of PHP, CSS, and mySQL) 
> 
> I'll agree with ^chewie on the forms as well. Past experience...shudder. 

Oh, this sounds like youse guys are about to enter my "strutured
thinkers" vs. "unstructured thinkers" dichotomy.

> Like most wywwyg editors, what you see isn't always what you get.

Or as  it says in the LaTeX manual, "What you see is *all* you've got!"

Actually, especially when I find people working at MathML, I wonder why
html ever got written at all.  All the world ever really needed was a TeX
browser -- then everything on print and screen could have been done from
the same source.

Cheers,
Phil M

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