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I think the author is rather talking about <textarea> vs rich text editor widgets for user supplied content, and not really about things like Dreamweaver.
by jules 12y ago
I think the author is rather talking about <textarea> vs rich text editor widgets for user supplied content, and not really about things like Dreamweaver.
- Joeboy 12y agoTen years ago I worked for a web dev company that embraced rich text editor widgets for user supplied content. It was great. We charged them an arm and a leg for the ability to edit their content, then we charged them more to fix it when they broke it or couldn't do what they wanted, which was always. Subsequently, when I'm doing websites for myself or for people who I like, I don't use rich text editor widgets. It's possible I'm stuck in the past, but it's not an ideological issue.
- jules 12y agoI have the opposite experience. Clients love WYSIWYG for two reasons: 1. They don't need to train their data entry employees in markdown or similar. 2. They can copy paste rich text from MS Word, rather than having to pay somebody to transliterate it into markdown. The number of support requests for WYSIWYG is vastly lower than for markdown.