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EnjoyYourPosting, a Movable Type 3.3 plugin, enables you to use a nice WYSIWYG editor(FCKeditor) in the MT entry editor, and also in QuickPost's editing, and provides some MT interface styles. The first positive thing I noticed after installing this plugin was that now the MT screens are centered, something I've always thought should happen. Instead of the list of actions in a sidebar, they are now positioned across the top of the window.

I tried using the previous version of FCKeditor last year, but the screen kept flickering in IE and Firefox also had issued with the display. This version is stable and displays very well, with no adverse effects. My few disappointments with the new interface is there is no way to decode text, eg if I wish to enter code, it has to be decoded first. I had a button on my normal MT entry screen that would decode text (an idea I got from Movalog's js quicktags) for this purpose. This is lacking from the WYSIWYG editor.

Another annoyance is that LivePreview only works if the entry is saved first, which detracts from the usefulness of LivePreview. Page loading times are a little longer, and adding text before or after a hyperlink, extends the link. You can fix this by switching to source view but it's annoying to have to do so.

This plugin is from alogblog's MTy plugins site and is the 3rd plugin I enjoy using from this author. I have previously installed and enjoy the benefit of QuickImagePost for MT 3.3 and CCode and TCode for MT 3.3. I recommend all these plugins.