On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 5:34 AM, John Erling Blad jeblad@gmail.com wrote:
There are good reasons why users want to turn off VE and the most important reason are not what most people in the thread seems to think. Users that have learned to use a crappy direct editing user interface tend to be faster on using that interface than more modern WYSIWYG editors. I tried to make a few test edits whit carefully planned actions and I could not edit as fast with VE as with the old crappy edit page. I think this is quite common. When editors tries to edit with the new editor they experience this and gets the feeling that VE itself is sluggish, but the real reason is that the user interactions slows down. The difference in editing speed i visible even at ordinary text with only minor wikicode, but as the amount of wikicode increases the diference grows.
I would love if the Visual Editor could have also wikicode edition capabilities with proper synthax highlighting. There is the Dot's syntax highlighter as a gadget but it doesn't come close to other code highlighters like Notepad++ Would that be possible?
Micru