I completely agree with the comments you mentioned above. I will re-list them here and expand on them:
*** The limitation of the old Velo IDE to Global and Page Code only.**
I honestly feel that the people in charge of making decisions have never truly built an efficient website on Wix. Ever. Every decision made seems counter intuitive and works AGAINST us. It adds on so much development time. The placement and default settings of EVERYTHING makes a huge difference.
- The resizing of the old Velo IDE to take up half the screen horizontally, as opposed to an expandable view from the bottom of the screen.
This is so bad. SO bad. Do you know how many Velo developers code on the road? In an airplane? While traveling? Everywhere? We don’t just sit in front of multiple 27 inch monitors all day long coding. We need to be available any time of day, anywhere in the world on ANY PC, imac or laptop device for our clients. The same way Wix makes “websites responsive for viewing on any device” is the SAME way Wix should be building OUR tools in the editor. It is the only logical way of allowing us to create FAST and EFFICIENTLY. It is the ONLY way we can keep making Wix money the fastest way possible. The more difficult you make it for us to deliver for our clients, the more we will keep looking for external platforms and solutions that can make it happen.
*** The restriction of backend code editing to only the new VS IDE.**
This should be optional. We need to VISUALLY see what we are doing. You have already slowed down the coding process as it IS by adding extra clicking and navigating while using the database panels, etc. Now when we work on a small screen or laptop we have to waste more time by toggling back and forth? (Do you know how dizzy that makes me? Dizzy. Yes. Too much movement back and forth. Too much time wasted looking for “where I left off”. Too much time wasted.) Period.
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