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It's complicated because it was created by physicists. :p I believe Alan Kay mentioned during a recent talk that he thought a WYSIWYG interface would have been
by th 16y ago
It's complicated because it was created by physicists. :p
I believe Alan Kay mentioned during a recent talk that he thought a WYSIWYG interface would have been a much more suitable design for the web. I think HTML is ill-suited for many online documents, but I wonder if a WYSIWYG would have actually worked any better.
- drallison 16y agoDon't blame physicists. We were just trying to organize and describe in a rational, rule-based language the sorts of document behavior humans find acceptable and useful. WYSIWYG would not have worked any better because deep inside the WYSIWYG system there would need to be some HTML like system to describe the document, its styles, its layout, etc.