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Discussion on: No more HTML coding, please. Let's make layout to HTML real

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Pavel

Charly, a very accurate metaphor!
Right, almost no one sees the elephant in the room.
As I recall, Bootstrap Studio is one of the first solutions of the "new wave" of HTML WYSIWYG-editor.
I didn’t like the way they solve the drag&drop problem. Sometimes it’s very annoying :). I think industry can do it better.

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Charly S.

I think it can definitely do better! I learned quite a few things from their produced code though (which is surprisingly clean in general). The problem in general is standardization; the editor builds its premise by being tied to Bootstrap (which I love but sometimes you might change libraries). The general open nature of HTML/CSS/JS coding (and even worse when you include PHP) makes it really complicated to build a drag & drop solution to cover all/most cases. But I think it can be done, specially if the big ones pay attention (Microsoft!)