I'm using my normal web browser to edit Wikipedia articles, and it wasn't really designed to be an editor. Several times I have lost my work because either the browser crashed or the website wasn't responding when I was done and wanted to save my article. Real text editors or word processors have an auto-save function that allows me to recover and continue work after a crash, so why shouldn't a web browser? Of course I could write my article in a real text editor, and submit it using cut-n-paste to the browser, but I'm too lazy to switch back and forth.
If you know a web browser that supports offline writing or has an auto-save function, please enlighten me. Do you use Emacs Wiki?
If you're using the free software Mozilla 1.x browser, you might be interested in this new bug report/feature request by me, http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158258
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lars Aronsson" lars@aronsson.se To: wikipedia-l@nupedia.com Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 11:03 AM Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Auto-save in your browser editor
| | I'm using my normal web browser to edit Wikipedia articles, and | it wasn't really designed to be an editor. Several times I have | lost my work because either the browser crashed or the website | wasn't responding when I was done and wanted to save my article. | Real text editors or word processors have an auto-save function | that allows me to recover and continue work after a crash, so | why shouldn't a web browser? Of course I could write my article | in a real text editor, and submit it using cut-n-paste to the | browser, but I'm too lazy to switch back and forth.
Yes I know what you mean. I hate when this happens. Unfortunately I've got no idea how to get around this except cut-n-paste from a text editor. What we would need (I'm not a programmer so excuse any of my mistakes here) is something like the Blogger API for the 'pedia and a simple stand-alone piece of software that could retrieve and post articles.
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On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 01:42:22PM +0200, wojtek pobratyn wrote:
Yes I know what you mean. I hate when this happens. Unfortunately I've got no idea how to get around this except cut-n-paste from a text editor.
Sorry if I sound critical but is it really such a problem to save your intermediate work as a minor edit every now and then?
-- Jan Hidders
--- Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se wrote:
I'm using my normal web browser to edit Wikipedia articles, and it wasn't really designed to be an editor. Several times I have lost my work because either the browser crashed or the website wasn't responding when I was done and wanted to save my article. Real text editors or word processors have an auto-save function that allows me to recover and continue work after a crash, so why shouldn't a web browser? Of course I could write my article in a real text editor, and submit it using cut-n-paste to the browser, but I'm too lazy to switch back and forth.
If you know a web browser that supports offline writing or has an auto-save function, please enlighten me. Do you use Emacs Wiki?
If you're using the free software Mozilla 1.x browser, you might be interested in this new bug report/feature request by me, http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158258
Lars,
You might try poking around EmacsWiki (http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SiteMap). If anyone knows how to set up what you want, it would be them.
If you do get something working, be sure to share the setup with me. ;-)
-- Stephen Gilbert
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