https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50540
Skippy le Grand Gourou <lecotegougdelafo...@free.fr> changed:
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--- Comment #42 from Skippy le Grand Gourou <lecotegougdelafo...@free.fr> ---
Glad to see this report already exists.
The idea of having text for VE editing and an icon for standard editing is
*wrong* : you can't have two different methods (namely text and image) for
advertising two options of a single choice, it's an aberration in terms of user
interface (I'm no expert though), it's completely counter-intuitive.
Furthermore people use to associate text *with* image (caption), which makes it
even more counter-intuitive.
As far as I'm concerned, I'd be satisfied if we could just switch the default
editing method. That is, I don't want to use VE as a standard, but an
advertisement saying it may be useful in certain situations, so I'd prefer to
keep it at the hand in case I want to give it a try. However, I want the
default editing action to be the standard editing. That is, I want the first
"modify" link to open the standard editor, and the link enabled by the hovering
to be the VE. Therefore, a simple "default editor = standard/VE" in the
preferences would be enough for me.
However I understand the reading issue mentioned in comment 25, so I'd prefer
if the hovering was completely disabled and both links always present (possibly
with the option to hide one or both in the preferences).
Furthermore, I'm strongly for the idea to give the user the choice of his
editor. And when I say "user", I also mean "new user". Not all users are
WYSIWYGers, and though people seem (and they're probably right) to think that
the standard editor may frighten some new users, hiding the standard editor by
default may as well repel some new users.
Therefore the best solution in my opinion would be to simply disable the
hovering and keeping both links, with the possibility to hide one or both in
the preferences. The argument that it's too many links is absurd : on a
webpage there are links everywhere, internet users are used to ignore them.
It's even more true for WP where almost half of words are links…
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