Why is WYSIWYG sucking?

Visual editors did not kick only lazy. So I decided to make my 5 kopecks. All of the above applies to online editors WYSIWYG, like FCKEditor and TinyMCE



1. Incomprehensible behavior

A user using WYSIWYG hopes that, as he sees in text form, it will also be displayed on the page of the site. At the time when the presentation is fully defined by style sheets, this thought is fundamentally wrong.



2. Bulky and unchangeable code

The presentation is not shared with the text. If you want to have half the texts with the Arial font, and the other half with Verdana, then the editor will insert the change font tags directly into the text.

And if you suddenly realize that Arial is not right, and Tahoma cannot be better, then you will have to shovel all the pages and change the font.

And fans of CSS and bare HTML just change the font in the style sheet.

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3. What you see is not what you have.

HTML page for everyone will look different. Someone has a different operating system and browser version from you, someone has a screen with a different resolution and diagonal, different monitor settings. But even on your computer, the color blind will see the site completely different!



You should not make the site look the same everywhere, you need to make it look good!