Formatting Buttons Not Working (in Safari)

Question

I've tried searching, both here and in Safari, but can't find this specific gripe — the 'new and improved' formatting buttons don't seem to be working for me in Safari.
For example, when I'm *trying* for bold text (with that word selected and clicking on the icon), the little tags just wind up at the bottom of my text block.{b}{/b}
If I go back and try to italicize 'tried' in para. 1, then this occurs{i}{/i} ... not that helpful.
OTOH, it works fine in Firefox 1.5.
FYI I have Java etc etc etc enabled in Safari > Prefs, and have already tried dumping the Safari plist file. Any ideas on what else to look at?

Answer 1

Well, just to square the turn — I did the obvious and read the relevant parts in the Help section and, strangely, that IS the way that they seem to intend it to work: Type along, get to where you already know you want to apply the tags, then click on the little icon, put the cursor inside the tags and type whatever you want whatevered, then move the cursor - again - and continue on your way.
I guess I'd say "That is so last week ...", but it's really much worse than that. (Okay, okay ..... add the IMHO and so forth).
And it totally begs the question of why, in Firefox, it actually works the way that you'd expect it to work? I can't imagine that Mozilla put special coding into their browser to have it work with the new Apple Discussions formatting; if anything, I'd have expected Safari to do that.