User blog comment:Kirkburn/Technical Update: July 1, 2015/@comment-3388044-20150704060938/@comment-452-20150706164434

SpikeToronto, can you please confirm that the "It used to be" you're referring to was when there was only one button, and that you have not seen this since it was split into two buttons?

Unfortunately, Help:Preview has never been updated, but I found the tech update from 2015-03-03 which discusses it.

"just like it used to do from practically the day the CKE/RTE editor was launched until recently."

If you're asserting that there has been a drop-down for multiple preview options since the CKE/RTE (Wikia's classic rich-text editor) editor was launched, then I'm done talking to you, as that is not true.

It has only been there since the fluid layout (Darwin) was introduced. (The help page was updated for that.)


 * edit: The dropdown was first implemented on 2013-08-13
 * edit: Fluid Editor Preview was released 2013-10-13. (The image in that blog post is a little out of place, as it has been replaced recently.)

Kirkburn's statement that he doubts it was intentional is interesting, and it will be informative to hear what "the team" has to say.

So, we now have two issues:
 * Whether it was intentional.
 * Whether it will be changed.

Since the button are named after certain views, I continue to draw the conclusion that it was intentional. Due to this, I refute SpikeToronto's claim of how it should act. With the buttons named as they are, they should and do go directly to the named view.

Having a button labelled "Desktop" that ever goes anywhere other than "Desktop" would be misleading.

SpikeToronto, can you please confirm that the "It used to be" you're referring to was when there was only one button, and that you have not seen this since it was split into two buttons? (2015-03-03)