User blog comment:Sarah Manley/New Editor Scheduled for Sitewide Release/@comment-3148529-20110901011610/@comment-168424-20110902144456

Sorry Kirkburn, but for those of us who primarily use Source mode, there are very few if any improvements and quite a few negatives.

Since I'm sure someone is going to ask what specifically are the negatives of the new editor in source mode:
 * Source mode can't be made the default.
 * Category management is worse (harder to find and use, especially for pages without existing categories).
 * Template management is harder to use, since it takes several steps to see the full list of templates used on a page.
 * This might be a bug, but for me the drop down triangle for preview is light gray making it seem like there are no options, but Show Changes should always be in the drop down.
 * The Source mode font has a lot of strange issues with letters changing size as they render. (This seems to happen primarily on my WinXP machine, though.)

I have a completely separate list for general problems with the new editor, but I believe those are in a general ignored forum post from long ago.