Do most web 'programmers' (not designers) use WYSIWYG editors or hand code their HTML?

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Published on 2009-01-02T04:58:06Z Indexed on 2011/01/03 23:53 UTC
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When I started programming web pages, it became immediately obvious that the WYSIWYG editors sucked. The HTML output was difficult to maintain, did things in ways you may not have agreed with, completely messed up existing pages if opened, couldn't handle code in the page, and was polluted with dead or irrelevant code like <font ...></font>.

At that time, I didn't know a single programmer with more than 6 months experience who didn't hand code their HTML. Even now, most of the developers I know hand code their HTML.

But, I also realize this was a decade ago, WYSIWYG editors have improved, and I may be seriously underproductive hand coding my HTML.

Do you, as a web programmer, use WYSIWYG editors for your HTML?

PS-I'm kind of thinking we can just vote either YES or NO, and put comments below.

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