What are the features of each editor?
2007-10-19 08:19:46 · 5 answers · asked by Lily 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
What you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) editors do all the coding for you (but they do make mistakes) so you mostly drag and drop. Basically these type of programs can be used by people who have no idea whats so ever about HTML and other scripting languages, but they can also behave like HTML text editors as well.
HTML text editors requires the user to already have an understanding of the language. All HTML text editors do is make it faster for you to write the codes; for example lets say you want to write a paragraph using HTML, you would type in beginning tag
and the program would automatically make the closing tag for you
and it would also place the writing cursor in between the two tags. The useful thing about these programs is that you are less likely to make mistakes and forget the closing tags.2007-10-19 10:50:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a text editor (like Word, which will do just fine), you have to type out each and every HTML tag. In a WYSIWYG, most of the tags are put in for you as you go. You see the result in one of two views -- design (as the browser would see it) and HTML (the whole ugly thing). To try one out for free, get Nvu off the web. It is a decent WYSIWYG. Almost as good as Dreamweaver, but free. Play with it and move back and forth between the views. I find that the text view is a lot like Morse Code.
2007-10-19 15:54:21 · answer #2 · answered by ZORCH 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a WYSIWYG editor is "What you see is what you get", so anything you type or images you paste will appear in the same positions, the browser should look exactly the same as a WYSIWYG editor. A text editor on the other hand gives you much more control over what you get, it may be harder and take time to learn, but you'll be able to do many more things with a text editor.
With a text editor you deal with tags like:
Hi!
That would show "Hi!" as blue text and clicking on it will take you to "hi.html".
there are many WYSIWYG editors, you can use DreamWeaver as one, and there are many text editors too, like notepad, wordpad, notepad++, and DreamWeaver.
(DreamWeaver can be used as WYSIWYG and as a text editor)
2007-10-19 15:48:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
HTML text editors you just type in the HTML code. WYSIWYG editors are better if you don't know HTML - they work like MS Word.
Joseph - MCM Web Solutions, http://www.mcmwebsite.com
2007-10-19 16:53:02 · answer #4 · answered by mcm1251595151 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you're talking about the same thing! You type in the "text strings" of html and, What You See Is What You Get, for html (no program is sitting behind creating html that you yourself didn't type!)
2007-10-19 15:44:58 · answer #5 · answered by fjpoblam 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋