Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-1173941-20131206141259

While I know that many of our more active Editors, (including myself and Gsimenas,) prefer to use the Source Mode when editing, the majority opt for the convinient "Visual Editor", (otherwise known as a an WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Editor).

As such, I was wondering if it might be a good idea to implement Wikia's new Visual Editor.

It's a rather interesting tool, and I figure that we could at least try it out for a week, before seeing how things go. In my opinion, it's surperior to the current visual editor, as it doesn't display templates as little tiny images, that you can only edit if you're quick enough to click a moving link. Instead it shows you a preview of the Template as it will be shown, and clicking the area that the template effects will allow you to edit its parameters.

You can read up on it as Help:VisualEditor. What's everyone else's thoughts on this?

Even if its implemented, you can still access the current editor, by clicking the arrow next to "Edit", and picking "Classic Editor". Or if you wish to use the Source Editor, you can activate edit mode normally, and then go to "More", and select "Source Editor".

Edit: Ah, one more thing. It doesn't support Internet Explorer. I'm not sure if IE can't use it, or they haven't as thoroughly tested the editor with Internet Explorer, though. 