What's WYSIWYG?

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What's WYSIWYG?

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What does WYSIWYG mean?
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What You See Is What You Get. It's normally describing editors that display text the way it will be viewed when complete. ie, the exact opposite of the Posting Box in phpBB.

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What You See Is What You Get.

It refers to design programs, usually HTML design editors.
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So obvious yet I'd never of guess. lol.
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Post by alex.barylski »

WYSIWYG is sooooo 10 years ago...

Now, acronyms are much more foward and crude...

WTFSIWTFYG :P
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I hate WYSIWYG. Its a is terrible acronym, I can't think of worse.
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And all this time I thought it was a word pronounced 'Wih-see-wig'...

What was I thinkingImage
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Post by matt1019 »

@EasyGoing

Hi, you now know what WYSIWYG (AND also, WTFSIWTFYG :D)

if you are looking for an "example" of such an application, TinyMCE is a good example.

Good in terms of.... that it defines what WYSIWYG is like.... security wise, its not a good example. ;)

Hope this helps,

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WYSIWYMGIYRRLAAGW: What You See Is What You Might Get If You're Really Really Lucky And All Goes Well. :)

This one's from php3ch0's sig.
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Thanks mate
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