The WYSIWYG editor allows a more intuitive way for your visitors to use formating in their comments or link/category descriptions. It requires IE 6+ or Firefox. Users of other browsers are simply shown the plain text mode.

The WYSIWYG editor is in fact FCKEditor. If you have feature requests for the editor, or would like updates on progress toward Opera and Safari support, see their website.

Be aware that when WYSIWYG is used the result is inserted into the database as HTML. This means the gunk is stuck in your database. If you want to keep your HTML validating, switch off WYSIWYG. Another consequence is that switching from WYSI to plain text while composing something will remove all formating. Yet another point to keep in mind is that since HTML is being allowed this could open up security issues when using WYSIWYG, though none are known to exist at present and javascript is of course stripped.

You do not need to enable HTML for any usergroup -- WYSIWYG overrides that permission automatically, just for posts that use that editor and not for posts from the plain editor.

If you don't use WYSIWYG, you can of course still use WSN Codes by hand.