Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Interactive Prototype/Markup-mode *needed* in editor/reply (22)

As has been stated many times, there will be a "fall back" editor mode for those users who cannot use the VisualEditor. This fallback editor will not be as fully functional as the Flow's version of the VisualEditor.

For example, the Flow version of the editor will allow you to "ping" or "mention" users by typing an "@" sign and then you'll be given an auto-complete of the username to fill out. We can't do that with a fallback editor. It's functionality that will not exist (same with other auto-completion tasks). There are other differences as well: in order to ensure "future compatibility" the fallback editor will likely support only a subset of the full wikitext language.

I'm sorry you feel that you will have to create a complicated, unfriendly work-around. I would urge you to at least think positively and try the tool out first before assuming that the universe is ending.