Problem
* Icons without labels can be difficult to understand and introduce visual clutter. Examples: Flags at the bottom of the page, always-visible history block.
* Reliance on hover text to describe icons is not best practices (many users are unaware of hover text) and there is no hover on touch interfaces.
* Keyboard-based interaction is typically the domain of power-users only and is not practical on mobile, where a dedicated keyboard is not a guarantee.
* Drag-and-drop is difficult to make discoverable on desktop, and is tough to get to work with touch-based interactions on mobile.
* Drag-and-drop also makes text unselectable.
Possible Solutions
* Modal editing is a UI convention popular on mobile because it forces assumptions about what the user is doing in to the UI. This makes interaction more understandable and systematic.
* Real question: In what use cases is an "always-editing" approach better? Do we care about those?
* What will SFW ultimately be designed to accomplish?
* What do we see people using it for already? (Pave the cowpaths)