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We've had WYSIWYG web editors for years. It's just another tool for someone who doesn't know what they're doing to create something they don't understand how it
by talmand 13y ago
We've had WYSIWYG web editors for years. It's just another tool for someone who doesn't know what they're doing to create something they don't understand how it works. This is fine for people who have a specific need but for others it is not a solution.
Why couldn't you make an HTML5 site with a ten-year-old copy of Dreamweaver? Sure you won't get fancy stuff like code highlighting and suggestions but you could make a HTML5 site with notepad if one really wanted to.
I agree about the clients angle. Clients want to see the images of what the end of the project will look like. Until that changes, mockups will always be with us.
- jiggy2011 13y ago10 year old dreamweaver won't know about CSS3 or anything like that and will produce code with nested tables and whatnot that is optimized for IE6. Sure, you could just use it as a text editor but at that point there are better editors you could choose.
- talmand 13y agoWell, I was referring to the text editor and not the WYSIWYG editor since that'll likely create bloated code no matter how recent the version. I didn't dispute that there are better choices, it's just that it could be done if one wanted to.
- scotty79 13y agoThere wasn't even one decent WYSIWG html editor ever. Either they keep close to html which is horrible because html model is pure crap from design perspective. Those editors end up being text editors that type some texts for you when you click the button. The other kind of html editors are just fancy wizards that allow you to generate some limited outcomes that are easy on the eyes but they severly lack versatility.
- talmand 13y agoI think I said all that in a much shorter amount of text.