I need to know about WYSIWYG and HTML editors. similarity and difference between WYSIWYG and html?

Question

i want to know about HTML and WYSIWYG, i want to know the differences and the similaritys between WYSIWYG and HTML ? which text editor would you recommend me for my website?

Answer 1

WYSIWYG editors were created to solve two problems in web page design. They are:

1) The fact that html does not allow for easily coded pages that contain complex layout like you see in Word documents, etc.
2) The fact that so many people have become involved in web development that do not have a handle on html, css, dhtml, etc... the languages involved in creating complex layouts in a web page.

The way these editors solved the problem was to give the developer a visual - drag and drop - design solution and shield them from the underlying code. They work quite well.

The problem surfaces when a developer who DOES have a good understanding of HTML and the associated web technologies uses a WYSIWYG editor, then tries to hand edit the html code to tweak it. They find that the html that was created is very complex and bloated.

With simple editors you get cleaner html, but you sometimes have to put up with pages that do not look exactly like you designed them.

So, one of the factors involving the choice you make between a simple or WYSIWYG editor is the level of knowledge you have of html and web design techniques, and how much you intend to get under the hood and hand edit the html.

Answer 2

Paintball summed it up, except the little misdirection that html and wysiwyg are the same thing.

Wysiwyg has nothing to do with html, its an acronym , basically a wysiwyg editor allows you to design websites and see what they look like without having to write any html code (the computer does it for you) but they should also let you edit the html code sperately too.

If you are starting out i recommend Coffeecup Free Html editor, however as you progrss you might want to purchase Dreamweaver, if you intend on creating a business out of web design

Answer 3

WYSIWYG stands for what you see is what you get. Basically most of the commercially available editors are of that type. A non WYSIWYG editor is more like a good quality text editor. If you know how to code by hand you can create a good web page in any text editor even notepad.

The advantage of using a WYSIWYG editor at that point in time is they typically give you the ability to click in a preview area of the page and have it flash your cursor in the corresponding text area of the code itself.

Also if you are working in a code view on a wysiwyg editor sometimes it will prompt you with coding hints as well. Personally I use Dreamweaver to work on pages but mainly build them in the code view at this point in time. I do not like the way most of the WYSIWYG editors use tables by default for positioning of non tabular data and only typically use inline styles. Knowing the code after I get the pages looking how I want them to I go back and clean up the code if need be on the places that I allowed dreamweaver to do the coding for me.

Answer 4

HTML is code used to control the manner in which a website is displayed.

WYSIWYG is one of several manners in which to create that code. Other manners in which to create that code are automted. WYSIWYG is a matter of typing the code yourself (What You See Is What You Get, or, you type the HTML, and the HTML editor doesn't add or subtract anything whatsoever from what you type.)

One extreme and perhaps laughable case of a non-WYSIWYG manner of HTML creation is Word. You create a Word document, then "Save As" as web page, and then, go use , say, Notepad, to look at the result, and you'll see a mish-mash of the resuting "HTML" and you'll see quite a difference from what you could've typed in by yourself.

Answer 5

HTML and WYSIWYG are basically the same thing, the only thing is that you see what you are doing while doing it, where HTML you have to load the page to see what you've done.

In case you didn't know:

HTML = Hyper Text Markup Language -- a language that websites can be written in.

WYSIWYG = What You See Is What You Get -- Changes to your code are updated instantly.

Answer 6

WYSIWYG stands for What you see is what you get. Those editors pretty much let you drag and drop items to design your webpage. They are excellent if you have never written html. And html editor is for those people that know how to right in html...the language that webpages is written in.