These editors are as varied as the people who use them and the jobs they're asked to do. If you were to ask enough people, the answer to the question, "Which is the best editor?" is likely to result in nearly as many answers as the total number of choices. One thing is for sure, editors, as a class, are some of the most mature, subtlety brilliant software applications available. Why then, when it comes to writing online, are we asked to abandon these finely honed tools in favor of the blunt instrument that is the HTML form? Even with all of the new spiffy 'Ajax-ified' features that have come to define the new wave of web apps, the best web-based option is a poor substitute for even a mediocre standalone editor.

Ahh, but being able to write in a browser is so much more convenient. I agree... Ode's simple posts allows us to do both :) (More on web-based posting later.)

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