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> The web was supposed to be WYSIWYG, and that got broken. The web was never supposed to be WYSIWYG; this rather is/was a marketing claim by vendors of visual
by wolfgke 6y ago
> The web was supposed to be WYSIWYG, and that got broken.
The web was never supposed to be WYSIWYG; this rather is/was a marketing claim by vendors of visual tools for generating websites.
What is true is that it was supposed to be very easy to generate websites in HTML.
- tannhaeuser 6y agoActually, the earliest browsers pre-CSS weren't just viewers but had also editing with primitive styling, though it's difficult to imagine in today's CSS-heavy web. Personally, I think adding a complete new item-value syntax and value space on top of HTML/SGML (which already has attributes for exactly this purpose) was completely uncalled for, and to this date we're hearing about the structure/presentation dichotomy which just never made sense as a justification for adding additional syntax.