An Appreciated New Feature of Blogger

While I am disappointed in the lack of support for the Opera browser by Blogger, I just ran into a feature in the new version that I very much appreciate. It validates my input. It used to be that whatever I typed into the box was exactly what was published, errors and all. With the new version, it will alert the user to well-formedness errors. For example, I just accidentally closed an <abbr> element with "</a>". Blogger alerted me, and I corrected the error before it was published.

Now, if only they would make the spell checker work in Opera, along with everything else that doesn't work.