But wikitext dosent need to use parsoid.

You say only switching and most of the other features.

But if were using wikitext then how can it be using parsoid since wikieditor dosent use parsoid and it works with wikitext?

We could support it so that users carnt switch to the visual side and can only use wikitext, and if they setup parsoid then visual editing should work.

What I'm talking about ^^ is for other wikis non Wikimedia wiki's.

I'm re opening as, ive replied to your question but this would be really great if we can do it.

Why can wikieditor do it and visualeditor carn't? I know the visual bit needs it and switching needs it. But I'm talking about allowing users who carnt install parsoid to use visualeditor but limited to wikitext and carnt switch.

I Declined this because:

• We will not work on this, even in the next two–three years.
• It would likely take many hundreds of hours of work by experts in this area.
• There are no such experts likely to want to work on it.
• The complexity of this would require large amounts of our time just to review, assess, and merge any code someone else wrote. We probably wouldn't do so.

We can leave it open if you wish, but it seems disrespectful to pretend otherwise.