User blog comment:Kirkburn/The expanding world of the VisualEditor/@comment-15255052-20141020064427

Using the visual editor seems to destroy the ability to add comments inside the template to provide guidance to users as well as hide values in the template you don't want your general editor to play with.

For example an image, I need the user to provide the image name but I normally don't make the "size" or "width" value available I tend to hardcode this on the source template so every image on each page is for example 300px wide. visual editor seems to override this.

Comments, i'll use html comments to provide guidance to editors in regards to the type of info they should be entering eg

a field called description is pretty vague so I'll often do a html comment above the value


 * description=

Using the visual editor the comments are split well away from each field and I end up with a mess on the visual editor page.

Possibly I'm just not used to the visual editor are there any workarounds to the above issues?