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Hi Jeff, I found your site through Acquia. I hope that everything goes well for you and Acquia as a whole since its success will significantly benefit the Drupal project. It seems Acquia are assembling an incredible team.

I thought I'd tried most of the Drupal WYSIWYG editors but had not heard of nicEdit and not yet tried YUIeditor. Although you don't recommend them, I'll give them a look anyway.

Personally, for long posts, I prefer to use Markdown in TextMate and it works well. I am also very happy to use BUEditor and I highly recommend it if you just require a simple editor to help compose HTML directly in Drupal.

Of course, these are not ideal solutions for non-technical users. I run a UK-based web design/ecommerce/content management services company and our clients don't have the technical ability to use Markdown (or worse, HTML) to format their content. I have found that TinyMCE is the closest to what we need but there are still problems meaning there is no really effective WYSIWYG solution for Drupal.

It's probably no small task to build a WYSIWYG specifically for Drupal and maybe this is something Acquia will be working on. I certainly hope so.

P.S. I just noticed that you have Markdown as an input format, I didn't know it existed so will have a look at that, too. Thanks!