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17. May 2010, 19:44:23

Hibou57

Opera's as nice as an opera

Posts: 689

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Hello,

This would be nice, if for all pages which does not already define an handler for that, there would be a confirmation message box to ask to confirm you really want to reload the page, or go back in the history, or close the page, whenever you were editing something on that page.

That's far to be fun to always lose a message on which you've spend sometimes near an hour, whenever you unfortunately and erroneously hit this or that key-stroke.

In the large, this would be nice to make editing in browsers more safe.

If this was done on Opera, Opera would be the first, as I don't know a browser which has such a capabilities.

For publication tool chain (for the web and else) : Semantic online editor, Lasidoré (XML based) - prerelease - requires at least Opera 9.5 to work nice

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17. May 2010, 20:31:44

serious

Lab mouse and likes it!

Posts: 5658

-1, this is way cooler

PS: now with correct link
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17. May 2010, 21:15:59

Hades32

What I use:

Posts: 1917

-1000000
That would mean that EVERY page would ask me stupid questions! irked
(As there would be no way to determine if your current page is "important")
Using Windows 7 64Bit SP1 and of course Opera
(If nothing else stated the most current weekly) on a nice Dell Studio XPS 16!

17. May 2010, 22:31:39

Hibou57

Opera's as nice as an opera

Posts: 689

Originally posted by Hades32:

-1000000
That would mean that EVERY page would ask me stupid questions! irked
(As there would be no way to determine if your current page is "important")


This was
1) only if you were editing
2) only if you were to discard what you were editing with no submit

How many times do you start editing something and discard it on purpose without submiting ?
For publication tool chain (for the web and else) : Semantic online editor, Lasidoré (XML based) - prerelease - requires at least Opera 9.5 to work nice

Google is not a synonym of Search engine : boys and girls, have a look at Exalead and WolframAlpha

18. May 2010, 02:07:30

rafaelluik

Neophile

Posts: 3276

Originally posted by serious:

-1, this is way cooler

+1 (-1)

18. May 2010, 09:31:30

Hades32

What I use:

Posts: 1917

Originally posted by Hibou57:

This was

1) only if you were editing

2) only if you were to discard what you were editing with no submit


Most pages these days don't simply use textareas etc, but ContentEditable. That in combination with AJAX makes it nearly impossible to know if anything has been saved.

If you really want that behavior, it is easily created with a UserJS.
Using Windows 7 64Bit SP1 and of course Opera
(If nothing else stated the most current weekly) on a nice Dell Studio XPS 16!

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