Daniel-
Yep. The whole point of wiki is to make mark-up fast and easy. Having a half-broken edit tool bar
It's not the edit toolbar that is broken, it's the browser. Netscape 7 is based on an old Mozilla codebase. The problem is that older versions of Mozilla than the 1.3 codebase do not support the selectionStart/ selectionEnd properties which are necessary to get and change a text selection.
Unfortunately there's no way for us to test whether the browser supports selectionStart/selectionEnd, as these are properties of the <textarea> element, which doesn't even exist at the time we do the checking. So right now the behavior is like this:
1) For Netscape and IE, change the selection when the user clicks a button.
2) For all other browsers, show a sample text in an info box, which can be copy and pasted.
Unfortunately 1) leads to problems in old versions of Netscape. That is an unsatisfactory situation and I am *not* suggesting to turn on the toolbar with this problem still in place.
Now there are two ways to deal with the Netscape compatibility problems:
1) Only support selection change in Internet Explorer. This is very easy to do, but will discriminate against users of Mozilla >=1.3 (including myself), inasmuch as they don't get the maximum functionality they could get.
2) Support selection change in Internet Explorer and *new* versions of Netscape Navigator.
I'm inclined to go with option 2), but some further testing might be needed until it's ironed out in all browsers. Until then, the toolbar will *not* be turned on by default.
Regards,
Erik