the editable part of wysiwig editors tend to have a frame that contains nothing but a DIV tag with a value something like "Replace this text"

Watir has no "set" method or "text" method for the contents of DIV tags. One can do

div = div(:class, 'editme').
div.locate
div.ole_object.innerText = "My text that I want to save"

but a) it's not elegant to use raw OLE and b) it breaks on mozilla-type browsers that use "textContent" instead of "innerText".

this issue is to add a convenient way to alter the pure page contents. Bret's syntax suggestion is
ie.div(...).text = 'Chris was here'