WYSIWYG
in a form closely corresp appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product
WYSIWYG (pronounced /ˈwɪziwɪg/[1] or /ˈwɪzɪwɪg/[2]), 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,[3] 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.
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- ↑ Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Retrieved November 09, 2007, from Dictionary.com website: WYSIWUG
- ↑ OED
- ↑ "Compact Oxford English Dictionary: WYSIWYG". Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 2008-10-18. Retrieved 2008-08-22.
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- 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 Archived 2005-05-26 at the Wayback Machine An article on existing XML authoring software (May 2005)
- The Jargon File entry for WYSIWYG
- Online demonstration WYSIWYG Examples Archived 2009-04-23 at the Wayback Machine - Two, online demonstration editors for making web pages or PDFs.
- ATPM.com's WYSIWYG: Is it What You Want?
