Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3153244-20130525142642/@comment-4795804-20130525192445

Generally, the editing in the Visual Mode can make a serious harm to the pages, if people don't understand what they are doing.

New people often drag & drop some image or copy & paste some code, which may damage the page, if they move the code to the middle of some other code (for example one template to other template). These problems can't be seen in the Visual Mode and people often ignore the option to check the page in the preview, so they just leave the page damaged.

Also, people often add some new information to the end of the trivia section of pages, where the navigation template is, however the people see only the "folder" image instead of the template code in the Visual Mode, and they don't understand what it means, so they just remove the "folder" image that "contains" the code.


 * People, who want to add a sentence or change a few words (a strong majority of contributions belongs to this group), doesn't need the Visual Mode at all, as they just edit a plain text. However, if they think they need the Visual Mode, they can switch the mode.
 * People, who want to format a page, may need the Visual Mode, if they are not familiar with the coding. These people should know that there is something like the Source Mode, however if they want, they can still switch the mode to the Visual one.
 * People, who want to add some more advanced formatting to the page, should be really able to do it in the Source Mode, as they wouldn't see a correct result in the Visual Mode.

To summarize it:

Yes, it is a good idea to make the Source Mode as the default option.