On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 11:00 AM, James Forrester jforrester@wikimedia.org wrote:
No. The Drafts extension (and any feature that puts hidden content on the servers) was veto'ed years ago by Legal. We need to stop beating this dead horse.
If that is the case, it should be expressed more clearly at T39992 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T39992 which right now has some legal arguments (not very convincing ones, in my opinion, but I'll expand on that there), but no mention of any authoritative legal evaluation, and on the whole the discussion is centered on usability.
Anyway, this doesn't really answer the question - whether drafts are stored locally or on the server is an implementation detail (a major one, but still). Is a localstorage-based draft feature on the roadmap, then?