On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
I know that this crafty UI was introduced to encourage
users to use
the new editor. The trouble is, this assumes that users have no idea
which editor they want to use, and thus will happily use whatever
editor the JS can trick them into clicking. But, I suspect, most users
have decided which editor they want to use before they start moving
their mouse.
I think users should be encouraged to use VE by making VE really
awesome, and by promoting its awesomeness, rather than by trying to
trick them into using it.
You could not be more wrong in this case, and it's a pretty stunning case
of bad faith on your part, Tim.
This interaction was committed by a volunteer not on the VE team.[1][2]
Ideally,VE would be good enough that we wouldn't need edit source links on
sections at all. Personally I advocated for not including them by any
method. However, people felt that it was important to give users a choice
on section edit links, and that as opposed to a dropdown or simply
displaying both links statically, using a progressive display was the more
elegant way of showing both options. MatmaRex could not have been clearer
about this on the patch.
I think everyone would probably agree that there are some annoying things
about the way it currently works, namely that it activates the display
action anytime you scroll past the section, even very far away from the
normal section edit target area. This is a detail that can be fixed. But I
can assure that the current section edit behavior was a compromise with
community developer support, to make sure that people who don't want to
edit sections with VE can do so.
1.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49666
2.
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/69984/