[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #35243: Extending the text widget to also allow visual mode

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#35243: Extending the text widget to also allow visual mode
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 Reporter:  paaljoachim  |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  4.8
Component:  Widgets      |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch  |     Focuses:  ui, accessibility
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Comment (by celloexpressions):

 My understanding of widgets is that they're intended to be distinct blocks
 of (often dynamic) content. They're the type of thing that a post or a
 sidebar/widget area may be made up of. A "universal" widget would behave
 similarly to an entire area, confusing the block concept by requiring some
 things to be nested blocks within a block that's essentially nested within
 an area of the same block unnecessarily, and where you can't continue
 nesting and organizing any type of block.

 With a new block based editor, I would expect widget areas to behave the
 same way that content areas do - as an area where you can add text or
 other types of blocks. Introducing a distinct widget block that has this
 functionality, particularly in the form of an editor interface that we're
 moving away from, doesn't make sense.

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