3 Years without FCKEDITOR / CKEDITOR or WYSIWYG support

Android looked Stainless, but it's rusting! 

2011/03/10: Over a year later from my initial finding, and 3 years ago since the launch of the first G1 phone, FCKEDITOR / CKEDITOR and the like WYSIWYG editors do not work on the Android mobile platform. Can somebody please confirm if the Iphone 4 works with WYSIWYG editiors? I find it extremely difficult to believe that Android is anything but corporate ready, when 3 years later, it still can't edit a web page with a rich text editor embedded in it. I'm on my second Android phone because I believe in things being less communistic, but I'm also beginning to realize that structure and discipline are the only ways to keep a product line polished.... I'm certainly not finding anything polished with that over priced Android; it's clunky, just like the logo.

Are iPhone4 users squelched like I am on the Android? Is the Email application slow and clunky to load emails on the iPhone4? Does the phone flip orientation while typing on it? Does the sound change by itself? Don't get me wrong, I've been rooting for Linux for over 15 years, but there is no reason I have to be stuck with electronics that don't work, just because it's "OPEN SOURCE"; I had no idea Linux would turn into Windows so quickly. All I care about now is having tools that get the job done, not their political correctness.

2010/01/31: For some time now, many CMS's (Content Management Systems) use WYSIWYG editors (What You See Is What You Get) for content creation, modification and hierarchy arrangement. The Android based phones do not seem to support these rich textareas within its browser. When attempting to focus a rich text editor, the browser begins to think you want to input a url, rather than data in an html field.
 A simple way around this is to click "switch to plain text editor," and make your changes in the basic text field. Then later on, edit the data with a real browser like Firefox and clean up the html-less paragraphs.

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You seem to think that it's all fine and dandy on the "communistic" system. I tell you it's not. Keep in mind that both Android and iOS use the webkit engine which powers the mobile browser experience. On the polished system, even the file upload button (image upload anyone?) is disabled beceause that's what they believe is better for you.

Let's find out why it's not working and focus on that instead of complainning.

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