![]() ![]() Charles Simonyi, the PARC researcher responsible for Bravo, joined Microsoft in 1981 to start development of application programs at Microsoft.With the introduction of laser printers, with resolutions not even multiples of the screen resolution, true WYSIWYG vanished. Thus, the on-screen output of programs such as MacWrite and MacPaint were easily translated to the printer output and allowed WYSIWYG. The Apple Macintosh system was originally designed so that the screen resolution and the resolution of the dot-matrix printers sold by Apple were easily scaled: 72 PPI for the screen and 144 DPI for the printers.In addition to "What you see is what you get!", this character also popularized "The Devil made me do it!" Seybold and the researchers at PARC were simply reappropriating a popular catchphrase of the time originated by "Geraldine", a character on The Flip Wilson Show, ( 1970- 1974).(72 PPI came from the standard of 72 "points" per inch used in the commercial printing industry.) When the text was laid out on the screen 72 PPI font metric files were used, but when printed 300 PPI files were used - thus one would occasionally find characters and words slightly off, a problem that continues to this day. The Alto monitor (72 pixels per inch) was designed so that one full page of text could be seen and then printed on the first laser printers. The phrase was originated by John Seybold and popularized at Xerox PARC during the late 1970s when the first WYSIWYG editor, Bravo was created on the Alto.Most programs, even Microsoft Office, are not truly WYSIWYG since printing and page formatting are still hidden from view. Also used to describe specifically a web page creation program in which the user creates the webpage visually, while the program generates the HTML for it.Allows the user to concentrate entirely on how the content should appear, although having the trade-off of not having the results being easily fine-tuned. ![]()
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