On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com wrote:
If there is an autosave type of function, and it is enabled, then one could control for duplicate windows using that communication stream.
I don't see how you could reliably detect whether the other window is still open at the time you raise the warning. It doesn't seem like it would be a very common problem, anyway -- most people don't edit so many pages at once that they wouldn't notice they're editing the same page twice. :)
I actually like the idea of an autosave, but I could see how it might not be a high priority (and could eventually be something of resource hog if people are allowed to leave a lot of uncommitted drafts lying around).
Resource hog in what sense, disk space? I don't think disk space is a big deal. You do know that we keep all the old revisions of articles, right? :P