Rich Text Editor – IE, Firefox, Safari ?

Things should be easier.

Why can’t I do the following with HTML:

It would display something like this:

When submitting the rich textarea it would simply POST well-formatted HTML as you would expect. You wouldn’t need a huge download, buggy javascript, different editor widgets for each site. You could have the same consistent spell checker every where.

Instead I’ll use Moxie’s Tiny-MCE with it’s little idiosyncracies.

Next Up: W3C, where’s my drag-and-drop image upload standard?