[Wikimedia-l] Let's have the courage to sit down and talk about VisualEditor

[Amir E. Aharoni]

2013/7/31 Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjorsch at wikimedia.org>:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Gerard Meijssen
> <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Quality like beauty is in the eye of the beholder. One thing that I learned
>> today is that the Visual Editor will have functionality that only the more
>> accomplished editors will enter directly or they will use templates. With
>> VE these templates are redundant.
>
> Some, perhaps. But would you rather use a template or remember the
> multiple buttons in VE and the right CSS style/class string (if that's
> even possible in VE?) to do the same thing manually?

God no. The whole idea of VE is to make people NOT have to remember
CSS class names.

If a template is a very common in a project, it should be a button
with complete GUI in the VE's toolbar in that project. If a template
is very common in many projects, it should be a button with complete
GUI in all projects.

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