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WYSIWYG
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[edit] Definitions of WYSIWYG on the Web:
- What You See Is What You Get. An accurate screen representation of final output.
www.rainwater.com/glossary/w.html
- Slang for What You See Is What You Get, refers to accurate screen images to print out. This is a primary result of Xerox Graphics interface. Pronounced "WizzyWig"
www.photographyreview.com/digitalglossarycrx.aspx
- (pronounced "wiz-ee-wig") editor or program is one that allows an interface or content developer to create a graphical user interface (GUI) or page of text so that the developer can see what the end result will look like while the interface or document is being created. ...
www.greyfoxwebworks.com/webterms.html
- What You See Is What You Get (pronounced "whizzywig"). Characteristic of a program or application which displays formatted material on the screen so that it looks the same as it will appear when printed out.
www.mygreenbushes.com.au/Business/SmallBusinessIT/Glossary
- What You See Is What You Get (pronounced wizeewig). This name applies to a class of applications software which shows you on the screen exactly what will appear on the printed copy.
aa.uncw.edu/ward/chm255/glossary.htm
- what-you-see-is-what-you-get (pronounced "wizzywig") - used to describe systems that preview full pages on the screen with text and graphics. The term can however be a little misleading due to difference in the resolution of the computer screen and that of the page printer.
www.p3paper.com/glossary/w.html
- what you see is what you get
www.assessnet.org.uk/mod/glossary/view.php
- What You See Is What You Get. A graphical interface to a process which shows how the end-result will look as it is being produced, eg a WYSIWYG HTML editor generates HTML markup but displays the document as if viewed with a Web browser.
www.acad.bg/beginner/gnrt/appendix/glossary.html
- pronounced "wiz'-ee-wig." WYSIWYG is a catchphrase for "what you see is what you get."
www.gslis.utexas.edu/~vlibrary/glossary/
- An acronym for What You See is What You Get. Pronounced "whizzy-wig".
www.studiodog.com/glossary-w.html
- This is pronounced WIZ-zee-wig and stands for What You See Is What You Get. A WYSIWYG program is one that displays on screen what the final outcome should look like, for example how Dreamweaver works when in Design view.
www.le.ac.uk/webcentre/help/glossary.html
- What You See Is What You Get. Acronym meaning that what you see on the computer screen is what you will get for you final output.
staff.ed.uiuc.edu/esecaras/ES/Vanna/glossary.html
- An acronym for What You See Is What You Get. Which means that the composite page viewed on the screen of a workstation essentially represents what the printer will output.
www.mercurysigns.com/terms.html
- WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) was a technique originally designed to allow computer printers to print pages that exactly resemble what a computer user sees on their monitor. It is now commonly used in most computer applications, including web browsers.
www.actewagl.com.au/education/Glossary/default.aspx
- What You See Is What You Get. Refers to the ability to output data from the computer exactly as it appears on the screen.
frogprint.co.nz/help/terminology.cfm
- "What You See Is What You Get" This is an old phrase that has received new life in the industry of electronic publishing. It refers to the attempt on the part of a computer program to effectively simulate the desired appearance of a document within the environment that is used to create it. ...
www.scotsmist.co.uk/glossary_w.html
- Refers to the approximate graphical representation on-screen of what a document will look like when it is printed, or what a Web page will look like when it is rendered by an Internet browser, while it is being created.
www.cobaltquarter.co.uk/about_cobaltquarter_marketing/glossary.html
- The acronym for "what you see is what you get" and is the process of viewing your document on a monitor before it is printed out in laser form or imageset. WYSIWYG software programs have replaced "code-driven" programs of the phototypesetting generation of composition."
www.impactprintingonline.com/glossarytz.htm
- WYSIWYG is an acronym for "What You See Is What You Get". 3rd party WYSIWYG editors allow you to edit items in a non-code format. ...
mambo-manual.org/display/man/Glossary
- What You See Is What You Get, a phrase describing editors that display the text being edited in formatted form
www-evat.mit.edu/report/glossary.html
- relating to or being a word processing system that prints the text exactly as it appears on the computer screen
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
- WYSIWYG ( or ), is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get, used in computing to describe a system in which content during editing appears very similar to the final product. It is commonly used for word processors, but has other applications, such as Web (HTML) authoring. ...
- WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) is a 2000 album by anarchist punk band Chumbawamba. Released after the massive success of their previous effort, Tubthumper, it commented on various aspects of the pop culture the band had inadvertently become a part of. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG (album)
- Said of a computer program that allows for editing a document in an on-screen representation that is an accurate representation of what the printed version would look like
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/WYSIWYG
