Deborah Woehr

On the surface, this tool is very nice. The problem I’ve been having is with the links. Often, they won’t show up as links the first time around. When I paste a link into my post or page, it inserts an “x” between the “a” and the “href” in the HTML code. I’ve tried to fix this manually through the HTML interface, to no avail.

Excerpted from Problogger’s Ten Things You Should Know About WordPress 2.0

There are a couple problems I see, as a web purist, with this approach. TinyMCE, though it will probably continue to be improved, creates really shoddy HTML in some cases. Empty tags, funky cut-and-paste, and the now-internally-infamous shoddy image feature makes it great for quick and dirty entries but poor for day-to-day usage. I don’t use Safari, the preferred browser for most Mac users, so I can’t be sure if it works yet for you Safari users, but last time I recall it didn’t.

Turning off the WYSIWYG option in your profile solves these problems.