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by mawadev 339 days ago
Do HTML WYSIWYG editors ever lead to vendor locking?
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ZiiS 339 days ago
Yes, Frontpage tried to lock reading to Internet Explorer and hosting to IIS several times. Even with the best will in the world switching editors lost fidelity.
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nikanj 339 days ago
HTML WYSIWYG editors lead to eldrich horrors, the likes of which haven’t been seen since someone tried parsing HTML with regex
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sixtyj 339 days ago
Wix, Webflow, WordPress… I have tried all wysiwyg editors (block editors). Oh my, what a mess in html, if you try to edit a file manually…
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