On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 04:03:29AM +0100, Rob Church wrote:
Allow me, ladies, gentlemen and those in between, to shove a screenshot under your noses.
Unfortunately, many people can't accept that "maybe" is a perfectly viable conditional.
It looks good. You won't get any arguments against auto-saving of drafts from me (it's on my list of "software features that I would like to see become standard").
Some random thoughts on the idea: * Could it maybe discard the current auto-saved draft if the user clicks the "Cancel" link under the edit textarea? Generally if I click this, I've decided what I was about to say wasn't worth saying, in which case the draft probably isn't worth keeping either. * Is it worth storing a diff, rather than the whole page? Say you're on a busy page, your browser crashes or there's a power cut, you reconnect, and reload the saved draft - however other people have modified the page, and now you have to merge your changes with their changes. However, maybe this is taking a decent idea and making it just too damn complicated - in which case please disregard this - I'd rather see a slightly simpler version that might happen, than an over-complex version which won't happen ;-)
All the best, Nick.