Here's some good news then :-)

The wysiwyg editor works fine in Camino on my iBook :-)

Suddenly I have a whole range of goodies at my command like

• being able to see my edit box in full screen mode,
• insert buttons
• justify text
• change my text colour for no very good reason
• emoticons at will.

and, perhaps just as important, I can get rid of the whole lot by disabling rich text.