Latecomer to htmlArea - WYSIWYG for Drupal

From what I've seen in the archives it's been available for awhile -maybe a year, but I just discovered and implemented the htmlArea module. This is a great module for anyone who wants to support non-tech types authoring Drupal nodes/pages. The module gives the "body" or text input area of content/node creation pages a 'MSword-type" formatting bar which can be used to format the users contribution.

I recently installed htmlArea on two production 4.4rc sites and I think the end users are going to be very happy they don't have to deal with html tags which are tough for most people to use. Like going back to one of those early word processing programs where you had to "ctrl - XYZ..." all your formatting.

htmlArea also enables me to create better looking nodes with images because I can use the 'table' function within htmlArea to better format the way the node looks with images, columns, etc. All possible before but more laborious via tag coding. I'm still fine tuning the preferences and there are some 'speed bumps' in the preference plug-ins, but I think htmlArea is well worth using to make life easier for end users.

Note: According to my tests, Macintosh users with Safari and Panther won't be able to use the htmlArea editing area, nor will Mac users with IE5. Good news is that it works with Mozilla's FireFox running on Panther.

--GZ