Thread:VisualEditor/Feedback/Table editing/reply (3)

I think that it's totally appropriate for projects that are primarily based on text, templates, images and references to have an editor which can do those well, rather than poorly with additional support for very complex tables that are currently outwith the capacity of editors familiar with wikitext, let alone newbies. The VisualEditor in no way makes it harder to edit a table than it currently is (quite the reverse). Yes, more progress would be nice, and so would a unicorn, but we have to work within reality.

We will focus on a table editor after the beta is launched, but I can't make up a date of it being ready at this stage as we aren't sure what facilities users will definitely need from such a tool (obviously add/remove row, column, cell; merge cells; mark cell(s) as 'header'/'footer'/'body'; add/remove caption - but there are other things that users might want to do as well, and I'm not going to declare it "done" when we've only hit those four functionalities.

Also, you mean "wikitext", not Vector, which is a skin. :-)