As mentioned in my last post, I had some difficulty with the new rich text editor’s control for inserting hyperlinks.  After I selected the text I wanted to hyperlink, I then clicked the hyperlink button, which popped open a window asking me for the URL, whether I wanted to open the link in a new window or the same one, and for an optional link title.  The problem?  The window was way too small for all that information, and the edit boxes were truncated.  To make matters worse, the window itself was not resizeable, nor scrollable - so I wasn’t able to see the tail end of the URL’s that I was entering.  Yikes.  I am now testing to see whether this problem has anything to do with my using Firefox 1.5 as my browser, and so I’m giving IE a whirl.  Here goes - let’s try linking this to my blog on How To Blog.  Well, that worked just fine, so it would seem there is a little incompatability between Firefox (which is the WordPress team’s recommended browser..) and the new WordPress 2.0 wysiwyg editor - at least as far as creating hyperlinks go.  Interesting.

In this test post I’m going to try each different element of the WYSIWYG editor.

This text should be bolded

Here is some italicized text

Made a mistake? STRIKETHROUGH

This paragraph is to be right justified. I guess I’ll need to do a little bit of extra typing here in order for it to actual be considered a paragraph. Perhaps a few more sentences… Sorry, I’m feeling creatively tapped at the moment.

HERE IS SOME CENTERED TEXT. COOL.

• I think it’s time to try an unordered list
• and then indent it
• and even another level
• outdent again
• nice bulleted lists!! Go WP!