Rob Church wrote:
Allow me, ladies, gentlemen and those in between, to shove a screenshot under your noses.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/0/09/Drafts_%28mockup%29.png
This assumes Tim doesn't beat me to it again, of course. But if I have another ton of notes and planning go to waste, I will be pissed off.
(Nothing planned at present, aside from the UI mockup here. I'm not starting this for a while, one reason being that I think our users can suffer a bit longer. Teach them a lesson in simple manners...)
It's an excellent idea. I suggest an alternative/complementary approach: only keep the last "draft", & save it when the user clicks on "Show preview" or "Show changes". This will make the feature available to users which don't use javascript (I sometimes use w3m or Dillo), and will fulfill the purpose (I don't know if it's the one you had in mind) of encouraging users not to hit "Save" every five minutes.
Greetings.