I will remember it instead of "pushing him" to talk.
The impressive succeed with TinyMCE (Patrick and Mauno) and FCKeditor (Stephen) makes me think that (at least in moodle) htmlarea's end is close so I will sign all my posts with an updated:
Counter to htmlarea's death: 99 days.
Disclaimer: Of course, it's just a joke... no real offense to the htmlarea's original developers. Remember this piece of software did it's work during a looong time.