Safari 4.0.3 & eBay Text Format

When working on eBay listings and on some other sites using Firefox, you are able to format your text using a bar over your text box. Much like the one I'm using now to enter this Topic. It allows you to enter text as bold, change it's color, insert bullets, etc. When using Safari, this bar is not shown. This problem is not limited to eBay. If this was a problem with site coding, I'd expect Firefox, etc. to have the same problem. They don't. So is there a problem with how Safari interprets certain text editing features? Is this feature completely missing from Safari?

Hello Charles:
I thought you were looking for information.
Contrary to your assertion, the fact that other browsers work on a site is not a Safari problem. All browsers are not coded to standards. I use (as I indicated) Firefox as an alternate browser on the rare occasion that the site does not play well with Safari. eBay is one of those sites.
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