Adobe Muse: a step in the wrong direction
Elliot Jay Stocks:
Dreamweaver, anyone?
This article has a lot in it, but I feel like this sums it up. To be clear, I use Dreamweaver myself, but never for WYSIWYG.
I don’t know. I guess I’ve never seen a full-featured WYSIWYG editor that doesn’t produce gross code. And I suppose this is less gross than Dreamweaver. But it still looks pretty filthy to me. I suppose the problem is really going to be a difference in mindsets, in understanding of the Web, as Stocks points out:
[Adobe Quality Engineer Jason Prozora-Plein] offers a sort of conclusion: ‘In five or ten years, I don’t think very many people will be coding to design websites.’ In some ways it’s a noble aim, if you believe that code is a hindrance to the designer.
But it’s quite the opposite: code is one of our greatest aids.
