Thread:VisualEditor/Feedback/Display "edit edit source" only when you hover "edit"/reply (3)

This kind of interaction is actually considered bad style, not because it is animated and shows additional links but because it changes the behavior of a known feature. The edit link which goes to a specific type of editing is now changed so it goes to another, but it looks the same. That triggers specific behavior, but the expected result doesn't emerge because the edit link is overlaid another interaction and that interprete the click as opening the VisualEditor.

I'm sure the editor is a nice thing for most users, but it would also be nice it the learned behavior could be supported. I think the simplest would be to turn off the animation and replace "edit" with "Visual editor".

In general I'm not very fund of animations as hover effects, they are distracting and can be very confusing if there are a lot of them. In this case I think they are unnecessary.