Forum:New Visual Editor

Wiki has been rolling out some changes recently around a project they named "Darwin", some of these changes, though not all may have noticed many yet, are actually really good changes, and others are more or less possibly inconsequential to some depending on what you use wiki for. (Some changes were done to the Wikia.css page, including moving it to Special:CSS and actually making it work like an actual css editor which will be great for newbs to css). Others you haven't noticed yet because we have yet to turn them on for this wiki.

They have a new Visual Editor, now one thing using the new visual editor would fix is some of the broken coding problems we face here. Many times the reason coding breaks on certain pages is because the people editing it have visual editor turned on, and there are glitches in the old visual editor, that are no longer in the new one.

HOWEVER, the visual editor has a fairly substantially different layout that may scare some of you. So for anyone who has visual editor turned on (if you were to go under user preferences, edit settings, some of us have chosen to leave visual editor turned off and never see it to begin with), I have turned on the new visual editor interface on over on my personal sandbox wiki.

Personally I think we should turn it on here, because of the benefits it would give us to many of the issues we face with coding that randomly breaks because of editor, so please go to my Wiki and play around with the new visual editor. Don't worry, you won't break anything. Once you do, please leave any feedback or feelings you have towards it here. If too many people are completely against it, then we can keep it off, but please keep in mind, not all changes wiki makes can stay optional forever, I have no idea what the time frame or even if there is a time frame, on making the new visual editor mandatory, as this is just the first rollout of the new product, so there will be bugs that come up, which is why it's only optional at this stage.

Debate
After you go to my wiki and see what the new editor looks like, please leave any and all comments here, whether they are good, bad or indifferent so that I can get a sense of how everyone feels about it.

New Editor Poll
After you've played with it and left any feeedback, sign your name to which option you like best at this juncture.

Leave the New Editor Off (+0)
(Keep in mind, this only effects users who have their preferences set to have the visual editor on anyway, anyone that set their preferences to not use visual editor will not be effected at all)