Wednesday, September 19, 2007

The Inspiration of WYSIOWYG

WYSIOWYG rise from the term of the WYSIWYG. As we know WYSIWYG is the acronim for What You See Is What You Get. I knew from the Operating System I used in my Personal Computer, several years a go. Bill Gates also named his Microsoft Word with its term. Several terminology we could found over the Internet. But I prefer using wikipedia.org for explain the terminology of WYSIWYG, here they are:
  • The term describes a user interface that allows the user to view something very similar to the end result while the document or image is being created. For example, a user can view on screen how a document will look when it is printed to paper or displayed in a Web browser.
  • It implies the ability to modify the layout of a document without having to type or remember names of layout commands.
If you wanna read details, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG



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