WYSIWYG

===**WYSIWYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get. Basically WYSIWYG is a system that shows, on screen, what you will get if you print the current thing being edited. It is a [|program] you can purchase to build web pages and also create presentations. The basic purpose of [|WYSIWYG] is to give the user a sense of how the finished project with appear without having to use layout commands. **===

The first true WYSIWYG editor was a word processing program called Bravo. It was invented by Charles Simonyi at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s and became the basis for Simonyi's work at Microsoft. It later evolved into two other WYSIWYG applications called Word and Excel.

An [|HTML] WYSIWYG editor, such as Microsoft's FrontPage or Adobe's PageMill, hides the markup and allows the Web page developer to think in terms of how the content should appear. However, an HTML WYSIWYG editor sometimes inserts the markup code it thinks is needed all on its own. The developer then has to know enough about the markup language to go back into the source code and clean it up.

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