WYSIWYG means "what-you-see-is-what-you-get"

Thats an internet fact.

Basically this means that when you type into a comment box on a website you want to be able to click bold italic and underline and actually see the words changing on the screen - as opposed to entering all the geeky <strong> <italic> and <ul> codes.

Why isnt a simple WYSIWIG editor included in Drupal?

Dont ask me! It was one of the main reasons that I (very nearly) selected Joomla over Drupal many many moons ago. Hopefully something will be included with the upcoming Drupal7 - if your running Droop5 or 6 (it's 6 on this website) then the chances are that you will using one of the many add-on wysiwig editor modules that are available.

Love em or hate em - WYSIWIG is web2.0 and it's here to stay.

http://drupal.org/project/fckeditor

Http://drupal.org/project/bueditor

http://drupal.org/project/tinymce

http://drupal.org/project/nicedit

Http://drupal.org/project/yui_editor

Http://drupal.org/project/whizzywig

Http://drupal.org/project/widgeditor

Http://drupal.org/project/HTMLArea

Http://drupal.org/project/WYMeditor

Http://drupal.org/project/xstandard

Http://drupal.org/project/quicktags

FCKEditor or BUEDITOR are my two main choices. TinyMCE comes in a close second but it's fiddly to install (so gets a bit of a thumbdown from me

PS: if you comment below then you're using FCKEDITOR for your GUI experience....