Annie: What in the world is a WYSIWYG editor? Scott: Oh, it stands for “What You See Is What You Get.” It means one of those editors where when you make text bold or increase the font size, you can see the changes on-screen, like Microsoft Word. Annie: Oh… I had no idea what you [...]
Archives for August 2007
Now Witness the Power of this Fully Armed and Operational Regular Expression
For a recent project, I found myself having to convert 60+ product detail pages from the old table-based format to the new XML-based format. I was doing this on my own, and I didn’t relish the thought of manually editing hundreds of tables of product details. For example, here’s an excerpt from one of the [...]
WYSIWYG Editors are the Bane of My Existance
I had to make a slight tweak to a page on a site with a content-management system today. After spending a few minutes unraveling the code, I found out that a simple list of three links was using the following markup, which has clearly been screwed up by the WYSIWYG editor on the site. <p> [...]