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WYSIWYG editors are annoying. Their whole concept is built on lies.
When working with HTML, What You See IS NOT what you get. What you see and get in a web browser are two completely different things. What you get from a WYSIWYG editor is mangled garbage.

I have been experimenting with HTMLArea 3.0 for my blog/articles and that thought occured to me. This post is in no way directed at HTMLArea itself, more at my memories of FrontPage when I first started. HTMLArea, actually does a much better job at producing clean code than FrontPage could ever dream of. Funny considering HTMLArea is just a textarea replacement for web forms.I've found a few minor things with this release candidate that would annoy seasoned coders, but overall it's great for clients sites who just want to type and update pages. I just keep finding myself just clicking the "HTML Source" button and coding by hand.