[racycle]

I have been using the same online editor for quite a few years now. The one I use, uses the same mouse functions as the offline. I will make a blank level, name it,upload, and then do all the lat work online. I find it rather tedious to have to go back and forth with the offline every time I find a tile out of place. So for me it is just a faster way of leveling. I do still use the offline editor for generating map images, creating blank levels, and doing local npc work.

I wouldn't think of it as a trend however. Most of the UC servers all seam to share a outdated copy of the online editor "moondeath" made me a few years ago. The amount of people using them hasn't seamed to change in my eyes. Everyone I talked to that uses it mostly go on the fact that you don't have to go back and forth and that your work is implemented as you make it.