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WYSIWYG

WYSIWYG (say "wizzy-wig") stands for "what you see is what you get." WYSIWYG php editors let you design Web pages without having to sully yourself with down-and-dirty php code. Aimed at the desktop-publishing audience, these editors let you select type and apply familiar page-layout commands (bold, align right, increase font size), and these changes appear instantly. Behind the scenes, the WYSIWYG editor generates the proper code for these actions, which it spits out once everything looks "just so." Unfortunately, though these editors may be visually intuitive, they're not artificially intelligent; sometimes they don't generate the best code for the task, opting instead for awkward, even strange, code that takes the long way around. And you're always at the mercy of the basic limitations of php. So you never actually do get exactly what you see.

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