If I see a gap between two lines of text, and that gap vanishes when I commit the document to the web or save it to a file, then it’s not ‘WYSIWYG’. But this has been my experience with 100% of such editors.

I propose a new acronym to replace ‘wizzy-wig’:

WYSMBWYGIYLBIACWBFRTWNBMCTYSSIYUC

What You See Might Be What You Get if You’re Lucky but it Almost Certainly Won’t Be For Reasons That Will Never Be Made Clear to You So Suck it Ya Ugly Cunt

Not as pithy, but at least it’s accurate.

  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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    2 days ago

    I don’t believe Word ever claimed to be WYSIWYG.

    Key word: ever

    It’s always been a WYSIWYG - hell, one could argue it popularized the term.

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      2 days ago

      Fair enough they got me on the semantics of my statement. I still don’t believe the functionality is still there though.

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        2 days ago

        And antivaxers believe that vaccines cause autism.

        Believing something doesn’t make it true.