Is this finally the era of wysiwyg web design?
22.05.12
It was because HTML is a page mark-up language, as opposed to a page description language such as PostScript, which specifies every detail of a page’s appearance, from each line’s placement within multiple columns to the fonts to be used. HTML was devised to say nothing about presentation, but merely to divide a text into structural segments using semantic tags. Tim Berners-Lee’s HTML represented every page as a single column, and delegated typographical choices on how to render the text – typeface, size, alignment, leading and so on – to the viewer’s web browser.
However, from the moment Mosaic/Netscape’s popularity made the web graphical, both consumers and creators began to demand more design choice, and software developers met this demand with dedicated authoring tools: Adobe PageMill and PageMaker, Microsoft FrontPage and Publisher, GoLive CyberStudio, NetObjects Fusion, QuarkXPress and scores of others. All of which promised to make web design as simple as print design with visual, code-free, wysiwyg design modes.
Source: PC Pro