For those of you who know what external sources are (i.e. those confusing yellow boxes you see when editing pages), a new feature will soon be rolled out to make working with them easier.  When editing documents, External Sources will no longer be yellow boxes but will instead display the rendered source.  The “rendered source” is what displays when the page is viewed.  Authors will now see this when editing documents as well.  This feature is intended to give authors a richer editing experience by providing a more complete picture of what the document will look like when published.

This feature will be deployed on Thursday, January 28.

Document with External Source—before external source previews

Document with External Source—with external source previews