What you see is what you get was a way to distinguish between word processors and layout software that used ‘markup’ and those that allowed you to interactively manipulate your documents in an on-screen representation of what the final output would look like. HTML editors started out as mark-up aids and rapidly moved to a what-you-see-is-what-you-get approach where the visual representation was the final product. Unfortunately, the final product as presented to the user these days has ano...
