WYCIWYG

WYCIWYG , abbreviation used in data processing which comes from English “ W hat Y or C lick I S W hat Y or G and”, meaning “what you click is what you obtain”.

This phrase is often used in the environments which change, to say that what one obtains corresponds so that one clicked at the time or one clicked it.

It is inspired by WYSIWYG, What you see is what you get , sometimes itself opposed to the What you see is what you want . Many alternatives exsistent in this field like What you see is what you mean…

One finds also the significance “ W hat Y or C reate I S W hat Y or G and”, meaning “what you create is what you obtain”, who approaches more of WYSIWYG.

WYCIWYG is also an abbreviation used by the navigators of the Mozilla family. “ W hat Y or C aitch I S W hat Y or G and”. It is about a diagram of URL indicating that the page in question is located in the mask of the navigator.

Example

On YouTube and the majority of the sites of video onlines, the button of reading/pause post an arrow forwards (reading) if one is in pause and two vertical features (pause) if one is in reading. This button thus posts the action which it will cause.

It is the reverse on jeuxvideo.tv, where the button indicates the state of the reader, pauses or reading.

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