Unusable input boxes are rather common nowadays. I know several web sites for which I know from experience I should edit my text somewhere else and then paste it in, then delete and repaste if I need to change anything.
In general, I've never met a WYSIWYG system that I've found satisfactory. Admittedly, I do have a rather low anger threshold for stray invisible formatting.
At an even higher level of generality, isn't it a bit sad that we still don't have a good way of handling text on computers, something that lets you portably handle typographic emphasis but doesn't allow stray double spaces and crap like that?
In general, I've never met a WYSIWYG system that I've found satisfactory. Admittedly, I do have a rather low anger threshold for stray invisible formatting.
At an even higher level of generality, isn't it a bit sad that we still don't have a good way of handling text on computers, something that lets you portably handle typographic emphasis but doesn't allow stray double spaces and crap like that?