User blog comment:BertH/New VisualEditor now available in Labs/@comment-3247345-20131208213954

The first thing I notice is I can't put templates in with source code in visual mode like I could with the old one. It automatically surrounds what I put with the  tags. I'll continue testing it out but if everything is forced to go through the process of using the new feature instead of just converting code I might just disable visual in my preferences. I never was a fan of editing visual due to all the unnecessary source code it puts in for no reason at all but at least I could do some basic stuff in it and I could get a reasonable idea of what it would look like w/o hitting preview. It was never a big enough nuisance for me to want to disable it completely. Now it is. Plus you can't edit links by right clicking anymore. Hopefully I'll find something redeeming about this whole thing but it doesn't look good.