The new editor
I'm a developer who uses Optimizely for many personalizations and A/B tests, and I've noticed the new UI for the editor. I just want to say I hate it.
It's absolutely horrendous. It takes several minutes to load. And, when it finally loads, it doesn't always work. Even when it does work, the editor is tiny. While it is nice to be able to see what I'm working on reflect on the page after I save, the tiny editor just ruins it because it's not great for long lines of code. I don't want to try to read through 200 lines of code in a box that's roughly 200x400 pixels big.
Furthermore, I would've really appreciated the option to choose or switch between the editors for default. It's been extremely frustrating trying to rework my brain to click on Edit -> Edit with Legacy Editor
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Alex Wong
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Agree, given technical users usually use code to build the experience, it will be great to have an built in IDE like environment so we don't have to copy and paste from our local machine,
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Marcy Barnett
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Agreed, as a dev I pretty much have zero use for the visual editor. The live preview is nice, but with my workflow, my only interest is the code box.
Most of the time I'm just pasting the minified code from my local experimentation dev environment but we have some projects where we don't minify. And anyway, even pasting it in, making sure it pasted right in a tiny box is a drag.
I still don't personally need to build directly in it BUT, I should fully be able to if I want to so ++ on both the box size from OP as well as the linter comment!
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Lawrence Tranter
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Hey, Im also a developer. I want to yes-and this with modern syntax rules.
What good is an editor if it complains about code that runs fine in >95% of browsers?