New Blogger Post Editing Features

New Blogger Post Editing Features
 
The July, 2004 Newsletter "Blogger Buzz"  from Blogger announces implementation of a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) post editor which now allows selection of:

fonts, text sizes, bold face, italic, text colors, easy hyperlink, align left, center, right, justify text, ordered lists, unordered lists, blockquotes, and undo.
 
Blogger thus now has a special "compose  page" in addition to an "html-editing page" in addition to a "Preview" and "Hide Preview" page..
 
One problem with the new features is that Blogger now changes html edited text automatically to its own specifications, which is supremely annoying to anyone used to writing html-code in a particular unique manner. 

For example,
a line coded by hand as

<font color=#ff6600"><b>New Blogger Post Editing Features</b></font>

is changed automatically to

<span ><b>New Blogger Post Editing Features</b></span>

This is fine until such a page must be edited in any way, in which case the html coder is forced to learn and adopt the Google html coding system, with which he is now faced. This kind of coding tyrrany is totally unnecessary.