(Sorry for going somewhat visceral with this topic but I really like you and I have seen too often these type of discussions appearing as deadlines get close and generating delays, stress and distraction for no significant benefit at the end)
On 06/21/2013 10:58 AM, Trevor Parscal wrote:
If we do have a choice presented to users, it should only be more advanced users, as a concession since they are likely going to need to continue using Wikitext for some time while VE matures and supports more tasks.
Could those advanced users cook a gadget and be done with this problem? A piece of code that does the trick and VisualEditor and MediaWiki teams don't need to bother about.