WYSI…WTF?

07 May 2005

Macromedia’s Dreamweaver WYSIWYG mode is a bundle of fun, as base10solutions has just discovered during the development of a website that was going to be maintained by the client using Dreamweaver.

The layout was pixel perfect in most browsers using CSS — screenshots of both renderings follow (WARNING: Not for the faint hearted!)

Here, taken from a normal web browser (it’s Firefox, but renders the same in IE, so whatever):

And here, in (apparently) WYSIWYG mode:

The code was exactly the same.