User blog comment:Sarah Manley/New Editor Scheduled for Sitewide Release/@comment-1254855-20110908162945

Here are my biggest concerns about the new editor:
 * Preview functionality. (biggest pain)
 * I don't really understand the profit from having a popup window covering the text area which does not allow you to go on editing and seeing the page preview. Also, the popup does not respect any JavaScript -- e.g. collapsible tables and does not show how the saved page will look like.
 * The placement of the popup is in the middle of the page - whereas the article content will not be in the middle of the page, it will be left aligned.
 * Another one is editing user script pages. You can no longer preview your personal wikia.css or wikia.js, you need to save it instead.
 * Everything is in popups.
 * Using MediaWiki:Edittools just got very annoying, especially if you need multiple things from it. It takes a lot more time and you need to move the cursor every time to a different place.
 * List of templates - if you added a new template to the page and click on the link "Show list of used templates" it will not be listed there. Before the launch of the new editor, by clicking on preview it refreshed the page and thus the list of used templates.
 * If you decide to not use the editing sidebar in source mode, you lost the functionality of adding images, galleries and videos, as they got removed from the row of little icons next to the "more +" link.