Despite spending most of the night as the only man in a house full of 14 women, I managed to finish off the latest article - Domino Rich Text In The Browser. Enjoy!

Thanks to Jerry Carter for proof-reading it. I have no idea how that many errrors made there way in, after I gave it a thorough proof-read myself.

Before you get too excited, here are a few more issues with HTMLArea that you should know about:

1. In an attempt to be the all-singing all-dancing solution, version 3 of HTMLArea does too many thing well enough, instead of doing less things really well. One thing it does is re-write the HTML code to fit how it thinks it should be written. For most cases you would rarely see these changes. If you're like me and want to take charge of the code you may be in for a surprise. Most of what it does it for the best, but some of it is plain annoying if you happen to know that the code you wrote is OK.
2. When editing in IE (not tried in Firebird) the browser can start to hog a lot of system memory. Not sure why this is but I put it down to the "undo" feature. It must take a snapshot each time you make a change. After a while of editing the memory usage can increase hugely and things can slow down.

There are issues, but still it's a nice tool and a great user-pleaser. Expect these same users to be the ones with the problems though! That said, HTMLArea version 3 is still in beta, so things like this should be resolved sooner or later. And if you really don't like it, you can dive in and change the code yourself...