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So long, and thanks for Reveal Codes.

• MegaDeKay 2y ago
  ALT F3, my dear incredibly powerful friend. There wasn't a jam you couldn't get out of once the magic codes behind the curtain were revealed.
• kstrauser 2y ago
  For those who weren't there at the time: Imagine that all web editors emitted a proprietary document format that wasn't documented anywhere except in the editor that wrote a file and the viewer that interpreted it. You lived with this because that's just the way it was done. It was common to get a web page into such a state that 2/3 of the page was red, one column was RTL for some reason, and everything was in italics except for the 1 word you wanted to be that way. You were used to this. It wasn't great, but that's life. And then someone released a web editor with a "reveal HTML" setting that suddenly showed you that `<font color="red">` tag that messed everything up and allowed you to delete it. That's what Reveal Codes did for us. It was a revelation.
  • ssl-3 2y ago
    Yep. It's just like a right-click "View Page Source" function in a browser, except: A person can use it to perform modifications. Everything in WordPerfect was just markup, and it was editable markup at that.
  • MrVandemar 2y ago
    When I first saw HTML I grasped it instantly, realising it was just WP "reveal codes" you could write. Surprising really that there really isn't a word processor that basically uses HTML.
    • kstrauser 2y ago
      That might look a lot like Markdown.
• zzo38computer 2y ago
  The "Reveal Codes" is a good idea. WYSIWYG without Reveal Codes is no good.