a computer video screen display that shows data exactly as it will appear in printed form
Origin of WYSIWYG
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WYSIWYG
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Relating to or being a computer system in which the screen displays text and graphics exactly as they will be printed.
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Short for what you see is what you get. A word-processing or desktop publishing system in which text is displayed on a monitor exactly as it will be printed.
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Acronym
- Alternative spelling of WYSIWYG.
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wysiwyg - Computer Definition
Pronounced wizzywig. Referring to a program that allows the user to see the document on screen just as it will appear in final form. Working with a word processing program in print view is WYSIWYG. Programming in a markup language such as HTML definitely is not.
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Pronounced “wiz-ee-wig,” it refers to the type of user interface that allows the user to see the results of editing as its occurs. In contrast to more traditional editors that require developers to enter descriptive codes, or markup, but do not allow for an immediate way to view the results of the markup, a WYSIWG editor can display the results immediately. The first WYSIWYG editor to be created was a word processing program called Bravo, invented by Charles Simonyi at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s. Bravo eventually evolved into two other very marketable WYSIWYG applications—Microsoft Word and Excel.
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