An Ode to the Return of Wysiwyg • Hacker News Board

Re: An Ode to the Return of Wysiwyg

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Post by 7bit » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 11:03 AM UTC

pimlottc wrote: post #9

WYSIWYG is a concept that pre-dates the web and what this article is talking about is not the same thing. WYSIWYG was coined as a term to describe word processing and desktop publishing software where the appearance of your text matched the final printed output; the same fonts, weights, sizes, styles, etc. That's it. It's something we mostly take for granted today but was a real advancement over earlier, often text-b…

WYSIWYG is a term that absolutely includes visual HTML editing. The author uses the term correct and describes it correctly.

Re: An Ode to the Return of Wysiwyg

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Post by JodieBenitez » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 2:07 PM UTC

> Then came Facebook.

Before FB I remember myspace where people could customize theur pages heavily with CSS. Fun times.

Re: An Ode to the Return of Wysiwyg

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Post by Terr_ » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 7:58 PM UTC

what wrote: post #25

Terr_ wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"You're not the customer, you're the product being sold." It's all very "free" until ICE rams my car and drags me away because someone sold them the geolocation and facial-recognition data being automatically collected by that "excellent" software. OK, sure, that's a dramatic example, but the same principle holds for plenty of other scenarios involving employers, insurance rates, etc.

Are you an illegal alien? Or why are you concerned about ICE dragging you away?

Did being a caucasian citizen protect Renee Good from being entrapped and murdered? Nope.

The organization and the politicians behind it are corrupt and lawless, and that means nobody is safe. Not even citizens, white citizens, white male citizens, and ultimately not even white male citizens who voted Republican.