It is a bit humorous: the What You See Is What I See idea .. and its
little brother WYSIWYG, but there is also an interesting point to be
made. It seems to be _hard_ to obtain!
This is one of the reasons, IMHO, that twitter is so popular. I've
started using it quite a bit simply because it _is_
I don't think so, Owen. I'd much rather listen to people bitch whine
about this. So entertaining. Almost as much fun as listening to people
bitch whine about Google killing off
Two things come to mind on this topic:
Tower of Babel
Uncanny Valley
(I hope my indentation, use of Case and parenthesis didn't throw anyone
off too far!)
When the Web was young, Print Designers went simply *apeshit* over this
new HTML thing, in both senses of the term. Some had a
+1
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Joshua Thorp jth...@redfish.com wrote:
Also surprised Owen hasn't brought Markdown into the mix here. Seems like
the perfect ASCII/monospace style for meaningful formatting.
FRIAM Applied
I wrote my first novel 30-odd years ago using WordStar on a NorthStar
Horizon Z80A CP/M machine. Which was fortunate, because it made it
relatively easy 30-odd years later when I was finally ready to get it
published.
Fortunately I had enough foresight back then to push a copy up to one of my
Speaking of color, and humorous variations on WYSIWIG, my favorite is WYSIWIP,
which said that (pre-Windows, DOS) Microsoft programmers drink Coca Cola,
whereas Mac programmers drink Mountain Dew: Coca Cola goes in brown and comes
out yellow, whereas Mountain Dew goes in yellow and comes out
