Hi John,

On 9 September 2011 11:28, John <druidjai...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> This is in regards to ticket #13614 (Back button breaks many to many
> widget).  I'm hoping that bringing this up might bring some attention
> to it.  This is a rather nasty bug affecting the filter horizontal
> widget's use with webkit browsers.  It causes data loss and incorrect
> data to be saved if the user isn't extremely careful.  Full details
> and steps to reproduce are in the ticket, however briefly the issue is
> if you save an object from a change form in the admin and then hit the
> back button the filter horizontal widget is populated with incorrect
> data.  Additionally simply navigating away from a change form and then
> hitting the back button results in the filter horizontal widget not
> being populated with data at all.  If the user saves after either of
> these cases, the incorrect data is saved to the database.
>
> This issue is severe enough that we've had to drop all filter
> horizontal widgets from our admin interface.


I concur that there is a serious data loss risk here. As a start, it would
be interesting to track down whether the root cause lives in Webkit itself
or in the admin's JS code. Any help investigating this would be appreciated.

Julien

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