>>. But that paradigm no longer works, if you want to build applications that can run on multiple devices. I suppose it should be possible
>>to build decent WYSIWYG editors, but this has become a derided feature so I doubt anybody will build one.
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>Which is a shame and exactly my point.

For a while the DreamWeaver was that WYSIWYG editor, probably still is, but I don't have it any more. It did have a decent GUI with all the intellisense you could wish for - perhaps not automatic, you had to rightclick and pick things, but it was a great way to build web stuff. It didn't work too well with linked stylesheets, but with embedded ones you could do pretty much everything, and yeah, it offered the available options for each entry - which is dozens and dozens of tiny lookups with 4-5 rows each. Which is close to a miracle for something published in 2004.

Nowadays one has to employ Firebug to try out style changes, then copy and paste them back into code (I consider stylesheet pretty much part of the code, even though it's supposedly just the cosmetic specification).