Does the Flex rich text control have any practical value?

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Published on 2010-04-15T20:33:20Z Indexed on 2010/04/15 20:43 UTC
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Since the control emits bizzare non-standard HTML, I'm wondering if it has any practical value.

The control emits font tags!

How are others dealing with it? Do you do some sort of RegEx replace on the text?

Or am I missing something?

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