Evan Prodromou wrote:
I guess there's not an easy way to find out how
many people are bailing
out of edits that they really want to make... except maybe to ask them.
Perhaps a pop-up poll for folks who navigate away from an edit page in
some way besides saving? Kind of intrusive but it might have interesting
results.
You could tell the difference between red link clicks and edit tab clicks by
checking the referrer, or by adding an extra parameter to the URL. Detecting
when the user starts typing with javascript could be another measure,
although some might consider that sort of thing to be an invasion of
privacy. It would certainly be an invasion of privacy to send text from the
edit box to the server before the user clicks "save", unless they are warned
in advance.
-- Tim Starling