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This is half baked, but I’m going to roll it out and try to live with it. Articles and comments will now use a WYSIWYG interface for styling. I hope to remove the How do I insert-a-link/bold/blockquote? type of questions that interrupt people’s thought process when posting in a new venue.

The downsides are many:

• This uses the designMode and the execCommand() interface. execCommand() was probably designed by children and is functionally incomplete and inadequately specified. It promises to be a festering source of browser quirks and user bafflement for years to come.
• The HTML sanitizer will need to normalize as well to unquirk the postings.
• I need to also support a raw HTML mode for people with odd browsers.
• I will need to make decisions about copying in images and possibly resizing.
• I will probably need onscreen hinting ofsome sort to let people know how design mode works, e.g. They can drag in links and images.
• I will probably screw up and butcher comments at least several times.

But… what would life be without a little excitement, so here we go.