On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 07:35:02 +0200, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Not true; the patch was rewritten by Trevor, and he's marked as the author. My version was showing both of the links all the time, with no animations, and I still think it's a better solution.