TinyMCE is an open source JavaScript WYSIWYG editor and is more commonly referred to as the visual editor within the WordPress admin. I was very critical of it. Yet just over a year later, I find myself using it as my primary editor to publish a post.
The visual editor is frowned upon by most in the WordPress community for being a hindrance more than anything else. You would probably find more negative than positive comments about it on the web. 2.5 promised a friendlier visual editor. And I have been using it ever since.
You can add a couple of lines of codes in the HTML mode and switch back safely. You will almost never have to worry about what changes are made to your code. I like it clean. The only time I ever needed to edit it was when it had added a span tag. It is perfectly alright to have them, but it was setting the boldness of the text to normal when it was already was. That only made the code more bulkier than it really needed to be.
It is a massive improvement from previous versions, but it would be a grave mistake on every blogger’s part to rely on the visual mode entirely. I will always switch to the HTML mode every now and then just to ensure that my markup isn’t broken. Up till now, I have not seen such an occurrence.
Before I hit the publish button and alert several pinging services, I will always give it a read through. I do like to keep my sentences and paragraphs structured. Imagine trying to go through it together with HTML code in the way?
You can’t go wrong while being in control with the code editor, however it requires that extra step of formatting your posts on your own. The visual editor on the other hand makes things a lot easier, but you have to be mindful of what it does.
If the visual editor works for you, would you still choose it above the code editor? To each his own. I would.
Darran Low is a 22 year old sports enthusiast currently pursuing a Bachelor degree in Computer Science at the University of Adelaide and aspires to become a Web Developer in the near future. 
