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Re: What is "WYSIWOO"?

Subject: Re: What is "WYSIWOO"?
From: Peter Flynn
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:31:42 +0100
Newsgroups: comp.text.xml

Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> * Ian wrote in comp.text.xml:
>> Ok, just come across this term and can't find a definition.
>>
>> Google finds an article with this quote:
>>
>>  "Leading Document Orientated XML Editors such as Epic, XXE, XMetal, Morphon,
>>  and Syntext have all shown that WYSIWOO is the "best practice".
>>
>> Probably obvious but I can't figure it :)
> 
> If you check the preceding paragrpah you'll find "What You See Is One
> Option".

Yes. It's taken editor makers 20 years to grok it, but finally we're
seeing synchronous typographical interfaces that are getting a little
bit closer to being usable by the non-XML-expert author. However, it
would be nice to see them doing more at the usability level, as I
pointed out in Montreal two years ago. I'd hate to see they hide the
deficiencies of their products behind a statement like the quote above.

///Peter

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