On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Tyler Romeo <tylerromeo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 9:35 PM, James Forrester
<jforrester(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
It would imply that this is a preference that Wikimedia thinks is
appropriate. This would be a lie. For a similar example, see the removal
of
the "disable JavaScript" option from
Firefox 23.
You still haven't explained why this preference is inappropriate.
This is slightly off topic, but removing that preference from firefox is a
great idea. It's only used properly by power users, who would be able to do
the same in about:config, or via noscript, or will add an extension to do
it. That preference is almost always incorrect set by users who don't know
what they are doing and it leads to a broken browser experience.
Maybe there's a comparison to be made, but there's not really a simple way
to disable VE in MediaWiki other than by having a preference.
Assuming a proper implementation of edit/edit source I'm not sure what the
big deal is, but I'm not a hardcore editor so I'm likely just not seeing it.
- Ryan