[Wikimedia-l] How to force to enable Visual Editor

[James Forrester]

On Saturday, November 16, 2013, Charles Andrès wrote:

> I don’t remember if I answered you James, but you’re totally right the
> problem was the browser, now we invite people to use only chrome or Firefix
> and we had no problem.


Thanks, Charles. Obviously it's a priority to support other browsers too to
avoid this in future.

J.

>
> cheers
>
> Charles
>
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> Le 15 oct. 2013 à 20:32, James Forrester <jforrester at wikimedia.org<javascript:;>>
> a écrit :
>
> > On 15 October 2013 00:58, Charles Andres <charles.andres.wmch at gmail.com<javascript:;>
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> In our new education program with youngs in scholar difficulties, we
> have
> >> the problem that only half of the new accounts have the visual editor
> >> activated, it's quite annoying to have two teach two way of editing.
> >>
> >
> > ​Charles,
> >
> > ​Is this because of the browser they are using, the wiki they are trying
> to
> > edit on, or specific to their account? Which wiki are you talking about
> > this happening on?
> >
> > There was a configuration that we used in June for just over a week to
> A/B
> > test VisualEditor, but that code is no longer around, so this should not
> be
> > happening.
> >
> > However, users of Internet Explorer and some marginal or old browsers
> > cannot use VisualEditor yet as we have not been able to get it to work
> > there, which may explain the issue?
> >
> > Yours,
> > --
> > James D. Forrester
> > Product Manager, VisualEditor
> > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
> >
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James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

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