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Gary Beeton spake thusly:

> On Sun, 18 May 1997, Simon Brown wrote:
> > 
> > Indeed. If you reread the good doctor's last paragraph, you'll see that
> > he's talking about *exactly* the sort of software you're talking about. To
> > claim that WYSIWYG is possible on the web *is* misleading, because there
> > are quite a few browsers out there and quite a few people with different
> > resolution screens. That's why you should design the document by a concept
> > of how it should look, rather than as something which looks good in the
> > one application you've used to produce it. Yes?
> 
> True enough.  But a good *graphical* editor could still be an improvement 
> over a text editor.  For some reason everyone seems to be hung up on the 
> fact that HTML is not WYSIWYG.  So what?  I don't think anyone is arguing 
> with that.  But why should that mean that we need to resort to a dumb text 
> editor to write HTML code?  I know that HTML is not WYSIWYG and I don't 
> care if my pages look different on different browsers.  But please give 
> me a tool that can do drag and drop, apply style tags, edit image maps and 
> tables, does format checking, etc., AND lets me see approximately what 
> the page looks like.

As long as you don't fall into the trap of designing the page so that it
looks great in the tool and window size you have it in and abominable in
anything else. Maybe you're one of the few who won't, but the number of
abortions passed off as web pages out there speak for themselves about how
many will. And with many tools, they specify pixel widths for things which
don't need them - e.g. tables containing text. And because you can't see
the source, you don't know. So in the same browsing session you'll find
tables which take up barely a third of your browser window, and those
which are about twice the width.

Incidentally, not everyone browsing the web uses graphics, which is also
something to bear in mind...

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