One of the best things so far about Moodle: the new text/html editor.  Prior to using Moodle2.o, users experience a wide array of issues using the HTMLArea text editor.  By far the worst was the fact that it often didn’t even display depending on the browser a user was using.  For example this is what the course settings page looks like in Chrome, Opera and Safari:

In Firefox and Internet Explorer (the only supported browsers for HTMLArea) the same page is rendered correctly, showing the text editor:

Moodle2.0 employs a new text editor however as default.  The text editor appears to be  a flavor of TinyMCE text editor (http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/) which is a Javascript based editor.  It works on all major browsers (we have verified and tested) and is much better supported by the community than Moodle’s current html editor (HTMLArea).  Here’s a peak at what the new editor may look like:

Most, if not all of the old HTML editor functionality has been carried over with a few cool additions:

• a “citation, abbreviation and acronym” button allowing for mouse over text
• “select all” option
• “add layers”
• “add Moodle Media”
• the ability to edit CSS styles (presumably for the entire webpage/description)
• and handy “paste as plain text”/”paste from word” buttons to prevent pesky mis-formatting and unwanted markup.

All in all, the editor works very well and is a great improvement over the previous HTMLArea editor included in Moodle installations.