User blog comment:Sarah Manley/A Facelift for the Edit Page/@comment-93604-20110414165807

The Cannabis Wiki does not have the RTE editor enabled, because the RTE editor does not work well at all for Firefox users. I like the fact that this new RTE layout makes the source mode option more obvious by making it a tab. My main problem with the RTE editor is the same as I mentioned years ago. The wiki should remember whether the source mode tab or the RTE tab was last used by a user whether a registered user or an anonymous one. This is easily done with cookies. Most people will never like the RTE editor in my opinion until it feels like an option and not an imposition. I find the RTE editor useful now and then, but I hate wading through preferences just to choose my default editor. I also hate having to click the source mode button every frigging time I want to use source mode.

People coming from Wikipedia will want source mode in many cases. People coming from elsewhere may like RTE mode at first. They shouldn't have to register in order to choose which editing mode they want as default from an obscure setting in preferences. Also, the wiki should be able to decide what editor is the default editor for all users whether registered or not. And the user should be able to then choose the default mode for themselves just by clicking a tab, and not having to go through preferences. So default mode for the Cannabis Wiki would be the regular MediaWiki editor ("source mode" tab), and users could click on the RTE tab ("visual mode" tab) to make it default.