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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.
Related Terms: common
abbreviations
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