what is wysiwyg

WYSIWYG stands for "What You See Is What You Get" and is a system in which editing software allows content to be edited in a form that resembles its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product, such as a printed document, web page, or slide presentation. WYSIWYG implies a user interface that allows the user to view something very similar to the result while the document is being created. In general, WYSIWYG implies the ability to directly manipulate the layout of a document without having to type or remember names of layout commands. Before WYSIWYG editors, developers had to enter descriptive codes (or markup) without a quick way to see the markup results. The first proper WYSIWYG editor was a word processing program called Bravo, invented by Charles Simonyi at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s, which became the basis for Simonyis work at Microsoft. It evolved into two other WYSIWYG applications that are now part of Microsoft Office: Word and Excel. WYSIWYG is used in modern applications like content management systems (CMSes), customer relationship management (CRM) systems, email systems, WYSIWYG web builders, document management tools, and other systems with written content. It is popular in web publishing applications such as blogging.