>>> In the longer term we are working on the ability to store HTML
>>> instead for new wikis, in which case it might become possible to
>>> run without Parsoid if you don't need a wikitext editor front-end.
>>> This is not going to happen over night and will just be an option,
>>> so no reason to worry.
>> 
>> So right now, assuming I don't have Parsoid, Visual Editor creates
>> pages in Wikitext, it just can't edit previously existing pages?  I
>> would assume that this also means that without Parsoid if I edit a
>> page in the regular Wikitext editor, I won't be able to use Visual
>> Editor with it anymore.
>
>VisualEditor is an HTML editor and doesn't know about wikitext. All
>conversions between wikitext and HTML are done by Parsoid. You need
>Parsoid if you want to use VisualEditor on current wikis.

This is what I had originally thought, but then somehow along the way I managed 
to get confused.  Thank you for clarifying.

Thank you,
Derric Atzrott


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