Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26923519-20170307181808/@comment-5956954-20170312032851

You forgot the biggest reason I prefer the source editor over the visual editor and classic editor. When copy-pasting or typing in different formats that the visual editor or classic editor doesn't give you by default, it either corrupts the text with &lt;nowiki> or that insanely long &lt;span style="Helvetica; every other font ever">, making the source code look like garbage and makes even more errors for the editor itself that it can't fix. It's the equivalent of a dog licking its own wound to try to fix it when it only makes it worse.

I like the ajax aspect of the visual editor, though, but I hope that can be applied to the source editor, too, like it already does in the visual editor but not by default.