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April 28, 2009, 0 Comments

The Sorry State of WYSIWYG Web Editors

Mike Davidson resurfaces a problem that just can’t seem to go away: WYSIWYG editors suck.

I could go on and on for another hour about details, but after going through all of the WYSIWYG editor machinations we’ve gone through, I’m left wondering why the web development world still hasn’t figured this out yet. We can write an entire e-mail application, a replacement for Excel, and whatever the hell these things are, but we can’t replicate a toolset we’ve had in MacWrite since 1984?

I agree with him that the WYSIWYM Editor seems to get the closest, besides WordPress’s hacked TinyMCE, but someone has to solve this problem and productize the results.

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I'm M. Jackson Wilkinson, a technologist, designer, speaker, educator, and writer in San Francisco. I'm the CEO and Founder of WeSprout, which is coming soon. I'm from Philadelphia, went to Bowdoin College in Maine, root for the Phillies, and love to sing.

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