Geeks bearing Gifts

Yep. it’s back to boring geek stuff again.

This guy has incorporated an impressive HTML Rich edit box (HTMLArea, coded by Mihai Bazon) into his Blosxom set-up. I’ve tried to do something similar with my comments page, but I’ve run into problems with Movable Type sanitizing the HTML in comments (a security feature).

Elsewhere on his site, Bazon has a rant about free software and being a starving developer, echoing a similar sentiment from Garrett Smith of the excellent DHTMLKitchen. His good point is that nothing is really free – and the developer shouldn’t be the one paying for his own work when everyone else just copy-pastes it.