On 7/22/13, Ryan Lane <rlan...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Tyler Romeo <tylerro...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 9:35 PM, James Forrester >> <jforres...@wikimedia.org>wrote: >> > >> > It would imply that this is a preference that Wikimedia thinks is >> > appropriate. This would be a lie. For a similar example, see the removal >> of >> > the "disable JavaScript" option from Firefox 23. >> > >> >> You still haven't explained why this preference is inappropriate. >> >> > This is slightly off topic, but removing that preference from firefox is a > great idea. It's only used properly by power users, who would be able to do > the same in about:config, or via noscript, or will add an extension to do > it. That preference is almost always incorrect set by users who don't know > what they are doing and it leads to a broken browser experience. > > Maybe there's a comparison to be made, but there's not really a simple way > to disable VE in MediaWiki other than by having a preference. > > Assuming a proper implementation of edit/edit source I'm not sure what the > big deal is, but I'm not a hardcore editor so I'm likely just not seeing it. > > - Ryan > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Offtopic, but I think a good comparison could be made to the (former) "external-editor" preferences. Anybody who actually used the external editor feature did not use the preference. Many people accidentally selected the preference and totally screwed everything up. </utterly offtopic aside> --bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
