Editor changes in 4.8

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There are couple of noteworthy changes to the editor in WordPress 4.8.

A much better experience when trying to place the cursor around links. Try inserting a link, then move the cursor with the left and right arrow keys. You can clearly see when it is inside the link element and when it is before or after it.

Following the earlier announcement, support for Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10 has been removed from the editor.

As always there have been a lot of improvements and bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. fixes, upstream in TinyMCE, and in core.

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