Hallelujah! We're getting closer to that miracle called wysiwyg blogging. This is very cool. I don't have to look through all that junky html while I'm composing. I bet I use more color and styles when it is this easy.
All TypePad users simply must immediately try this out. If you are on Mac like me, you can't use Safari yet, but you can use the excellent Firefox. Camino and Opera don't support rich text editing currently, so you are out of luck if you are not bi-browser.
Another great thing. There are two tabs on the Post Body input screen: Compose Post and Edit HTML. You can do everything in the rich text screen (Compose Post) and then switch to edit HTML to fine tune or add extras.
Of course, my heart belongs to ecto. But, first, as far as I know, ecto doesn't do this yet. And second, There are times when I'm not on my own machine and I will be so happy that I can do wysiwyg blogging from a browser. Once I saw that TypePad is doing wysiwyg editing, I realized that ecto (which has affiliation through investors to Six Apart, and is the high-end editor-of-choice for Mac bloggers) must have wysiwyg editing. But I wasn't using it. I am now!!! More on ecto 2 soon because it rocks!
I can't imagine that ecto will be far behind on this if it's not already available and I'm just too dense to figure it out. One thing I love about ecto is its user-editable html shortcuts. I can create any html tag I want and then pick it from the pop-down menu to apply it. Ecto rules but I'm thrilled to see TypePad pushing this particular envelope.
Six Apart has some excellent instructions for rich text editing - about 4 pages of everything you could think of.