intertwingly

Strictly speaking it's not a WYSIWYG HTML text edit control. It's actually a copy of IE's designMode. This means that to implement a WYSIWYG editor you need a back doc in an Iframe. You then have to jump through javascript hoops to get the text in and out of this back doc and return it in a CGI form.

What we actually need is a CGI aware html editing version of textarea. But I guess that would involve the W3C in all sorts of hassle with HTML specs.

You could take this further and say that the form controls in html are unbelievably dumb. Some method of allowing extendability here and the on the fly addition of more intelligent controls would make html vastly easier to use to build the gui for web apps. Even if you use Java applets or ActiveX, it's still always a pain at the moment to get the data back into the form data and passed in a GET or POST.

Anyway, for a lightweight, semi-WYSIWYG editor that works in both IE and Mozilla take a look at this.
http://www.ecademy.com/test/textarea/

Midas has landed. Dave Johnson: Blogzilla points out that Midas, a WYSIWYG HTML text edit control, is available in current Mozilla nightly builds. Sweet! [Sam Ruby] To Userland folks: Please, please, please act...

Midas has landed. Dave Johnson: Blogzilla points out that Midas, a WYSIWYG HTML text edit control, is available in current Mozilla nightly builds. Sweet! [Sam Ruby]...