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SohilM, I recognize that one person's "simple" and another's "confusing" can be the same thing. What I don't see is how two icons that differ by only one character and do radically different things are simpler than textual tabs that clearly identified that there were two entirely different editor versions.
Our blog authors have seen the "Rich Text" "HTML" "Preview" tab layout for up to ten years, and given that the default setting for the role BlogAuthor is to allow Simple HTML, they knew where to find it if they need it. Now they need to look for "<>" or "</>" and decide between them which one is code and which one just looks like code. Luckily, the authors on most of our blogs don't put a lot of visual code samples into articles, and probably will use the real code (equivalent to the "HTML" tab). Of course, we'll have to revamp our code embedding classes and call everyone in who embeds objects to explain how to use the new method to get to the HTML editor.
Given that the default setting for the HTML editor for regular users is "Deny", the "HTML" tab doesn't even display on discussion boards. Since a casual user would never see the tab, I'm still a bit mystified by what problem was solved by this change.