WYSIWYG

WYSIWYG (Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Retrieved November 09, 2007, from Dictionary.com website: WYSIWUG or OED), is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get, used in computing to describe a system where things you edit on the on-screen editor appear almost the same to the final output, which might be a printed document, a web page, a PowerPoint presentation or even the lighting for a concert. Web designers often use this word to talk about their work.

Related pages
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WYSIWYM

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 Other websites 
Comparison table - open source and commercial WYSIWYG web-based editors
ATPM.com's WYSIWYG: Is it What You Want?
What has WYSIWYG done to us?  - Serious article about the negative effects the introduction of WYSIWYG has had as of 1996.
XML: WYSIWYG to WYSIWYM - A brief look at XML document authoring  An article on existing XML authoring software (May 2005)
 The Jargon File entry for WYSIWYG
 Online demonstration WYSIWYG Examples  - Two, online demonstration editors for making web pages or PDFs.
ATPM.com's WYSIWYG: Is it What You Want?

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