Hard code or WYSIWYG

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Do you hard-code or use a WYSIWYG?
#programming #code #hard #wysiwyg
  • I prefer WYSIWYG as its easy to understand and make changes. I guess, the purpose of WYSIWYG would fail, if we will keep on using those hard codes.
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    • WYSIWYG is okay for some things, but your code turns to mush and you are not aware of what is going on.
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  • I Wysiwon't

    Most WYSIWYG editors pollute the code with unnecessary tags, leaving unoptimized code, which requires bandwidth, hence costs money.

    Visual editors are o.k. to get a feel for the look, but ultimately, the code is optimized and checked for superfluous tags, etc..

    WP4H
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    • WYSIWYG for me.
      and some Hard coding when troubleshooting.
  • Yeah, WYSIWYG is horribly formatted and unoptimized by the time you change a lot of stuff around :/
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    • Hard code. I do use wysiwyg sometimes for preview or quickly rearranging things - but I always go back to plain code. Wysiwyg just doesn't put out clean code (and that applies ALL the Wysiwyg programs I've ever tried.)
  • I guess I'm a bit of a control freak. I never, ever use WYSIWYG modes. I've tried, but I need to see the code to be sure.
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    • The biggest issue with most WYSIWYG editors I've used is they produce code that's not standards-compliant (the one exception being Dreamweaver). In other words, your site is likely to look OK in certain browsers/versions, but screwed up in others.

      I started out using free/cheap WYSIWYG editors (tried lots of them) but after a while got so fed up with the issue mentioned above, that I broke down and learned how to code everything myself. It's not hard to learn the basics of XHTML & CSS... for static sites that's really all you need.
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  • I am a competent coder but I prefer WYSIWYG as it lets me finish faster. Of course, if there are elements that I really need to hard-code, I go in there and do it.

    But once in awhile I like to do pure hard-coding, just to make sure that I do not forget how to do it
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