{"authorId":"1","title":"It\u2019s Still a Stinking WYSIWYG","slug":"its-still-a-stinking-wysiwyg","postDate":1187997953,"expiryDate":null,"enabled":"1","fields":{"2":"<p>Just the other day, <a href=\"http:\/\/meyerweb.com\/eric\/thoughts\/2007\/08\/23\/css-sculptor-released\/\">Eric Meyer announced<\/a> that he has been working with WebAssist to create <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webassist.com\/go\/css\/emeyer\">Eric Meyer&rsquo;s CSS Sculptor<\/a>. It&rsquo;s a Dreamweaver Extension that assists users in creating clean markup and CSS. While this seems like a vast improvement over previous <acronym title=\"What You See Is What You Get\">WYSIWYG<\/acronym>s, it still feels like one.<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<h2 class=\"replaceHeadline\">Why Do I Feel This Way?<\/h2>\n\n<p>While it&rsquo;s great that this would mean that there is less crap code out there, people are still basically using forms to generate the markup and CSS needed. They <strong>still are not<\/strong> learning anything about web development.<\/p>\n\n<p>One thing I saw in the plans for future releases was:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote><p>There are some things I expect will be improved in future releases, like shorthand value minimization&mdash;the simplest example of that being a condensation of 0 0 0 0 down to just plain 0.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Wow, if that&rsquo;s not going to confuse the hell out of people who don&rsquo;t know CSS, I don&rsquo;t know what will. Imagine trying to add a margin in, so you add <code>margin: 10px 0 10px 0;<\/code>, then it gets condensed to <code>margin: 10px 0;<\/code>. It kind of seems like you would be confused as to why it wouldn&rsquo;t accept the values that you were adding. Unless they give some sort of alert telling the user that this is what is happening, they will definitely be confused.<\/p>\n\n<p>They won&rsquo;t know the different between margin and padding.<\/p>\n\n<p>They still may use blockquotes to indent their text.<\/p>\n\n<p>It just seems like crap.<\/p>\n\n<p>Users are still going to be choosing from a template. Do we really want the web to be built on templates?<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"replaceHeadline\">What are the Ramifications<\/h2>\n\n<p>As I was thinking about this writing this, I was reading a post at <a href=\"http:\/\/fadtastic.net\"> entitled &ldquo;<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/fadtastic.net\/2007\/08\/24\/will-software-ever-make-us-redundant\/\">Will Software Ever Make Us Redundant?<\/a>&rdquo;.<\/p>\n\n<p>I think this post really got me thinking about how even though the WYSIWYGs are getting better, I don&rsquo;t ever think that humans will become redundant in Web Design\/Development. The human mind is just too creative and amazing for a piece of software to ever be able to accomplish the same thing. Think about all of those wacky IE6 bugs.<\/p>\n\n<p>I don&rsquo;t know Mr. Meyer, with all due respect, it kinda feels like you sold out on us.<\/p>","14":{"old_id":{}}}}