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Warn when navigating away from composing a 'message'
I'm on stackoverflow.com, and they have this. It might be javascript based or a custom feature, but I loved it when I got that warning!It's sort of like the 'Navigating to this page requires re-sending form data, are you sure' warning when you enter forms on a series of pages and navigate Back to change a form field. But this one is the other way around, it stops you from losing your forum post, blog text, or whatever.
If it's possible to do, it would detect if a form field on the page has been manually changed and set a flag. If navigating away, it would check the flag and require confirmation, if the warn option is enabled. Possibly you could define all 'navigating away' events as those not involving a javascript POST call, or a form submit call, of the field(s) that have been manually changed.
'You're about to lose entered data'-warning option?
| Option | Results | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No, it's in the way, nobody wants it. |  |
17% | 1 |
| Yes, good option. I post a lot. | |
83% | 5 |
| Total number of votes: | 6 | ||
a simple "yes" and "no" would have done for the poll.
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This feature would suit me well since Opera doesn't save forum posts like Chrome and Firefox do in case you accidentally close the tabs or navigate to another page.
Originally posted by Y0Y0:
How do I conjure this feature myself?Originally posted by Phriend:
Mine always does.This feature would suit me well since Opera doesn't save forum posts.
Originally posted by Y0Y0:
Originally posted by Phriend:
This feature would suit me well since Opera doesn't save forum posts
Mine always does.
And No, I don't need any more nag screens asking me if I really want to do what I told the browser to do.
Well, it would be an option. If there already is such an option, why not share how it's done? Unless you mean navigationmode, which helps if all you did was navigate Back.
Part of why I posted is that browsers are becoming more and more complex with more and more triggerable options. Also, more and more 'work' (creating and contributing) gets done in browser windows, so to speak. Either all those options that could mess up a submit of a form (such as posting on forums, blogs, cmses) should be blockable with some checkbox, or, what I think is better, notice that you're inputting data into the browser window, and never ever let you lose that data. Ever. Hell, I'd even have it auto-save my input. A far more critical feature than spell-checking, in my opinion.