Topic
Summary
Bugs
Off Switch/disable
Use Mathma Rex's Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets , if installed locally. See mw:VisualEditor/Portal/Gadget
bugzilla:50929
Browser support
Only later versions of Mozilla, Chrome, Safari supported. IE not supported; IE9 and IE10 to be supported eventually. Opera may soon be supported; a volunteer is working on this.
bugzilla:50781 tracking bug, bugzilla:50781 IE, bugzilla:50777 Amazon Silk, bugzilla:50813 Opera, bugzilla:50780 Firefox 11/12
Speed issues
Slow on large pages
bugzilla:51053 a timeout for large articles
Section editing
Not planned. VisualEditor will automatically scroll to appropriate section.
bugzilla:48429
Tables
Not supported yet. You can change contents of existing cells.
bugzilla:39596 main tracker bug
Categories
Changed via a pop-up box that covers up most of the article.
bugzilla:50239 alternate editing proposal, bugzilla:50882 switching order of stub templates and cats
Images
Can't specify numeric height or width, but can visually alter size
bugzilla:50379 default sizes for images, bugzilla:38129 a richer dialog for image properties
Templates
All templates need to have TemplateData added to allow easier use with VE.
[[bugzilla:50182] problem with nested templates
Supscripts/superscripts
Not implemented
bugzilla:47780 to add support, bugzilla:50938 silent change of ordering of quotes and subscripts
Greek letters, symbols, and other unusual characters
Use copy and paste if your keyboard doesn't handle this.
bugzilla:38029
Other tags (extension specific, ...)
Not supported: <math>, <timeline>, <poem>, computer code <source> and <syntaxhighlight>, <imagemap>, listing, wikidata, <score>, hieroglyphs <hiero>, <templatedata>, <gallery>, <charinsert>, <categorytree>, <charinsert>, <inputbox>, <section>
bugzilla:43058 for maths. bugzilla:46803 tracker bug for extension plugins, bugzilla:43133 allow plain text editing of extension tags (unlikey to be fixed as depends on the Parsoid parser)
TemplateData
No markup possible, no way to add to links.
add links to docs bugzilla:51311
<nowiki/> tags
<nowiki/> inserted in random places
bugzilla:50659 , bugzilla:50724 , many more bugzilla search
This is my short list of problems you might expect to see. Not every community sees all of these problems. For example, the nowiki problem is a big issue at the English Wikipedia, but I have not seen it yet at the Japanese Wikipedia. You may also find new problems, in which case they should be reported at bugzilla: .
Please feel free to translate this table or to add links. Whatamidoing (WMF) (disk ) 23 juli 2013 kl. 18.57 (CEST) [ svara ]
per the current plans . If you want to put a link to the history or to the archives in the talk page, feel free to, of course. Please make sure m:VisualEditor/Newsletter/Wikis_with_VE contains the adequate page where you can receive the visual editor (now Editing) newsletter from now on. Thanks for your attention! Elitre (WMF) (diskussion ) 24 oktober 2017 kl. 13.49 (CEST) [ svara ]
