I couldn't agree more. As there is no easy undo if you close without saving, and the consequences are severe - the loss of potentially a lot of work.
Also I think modern expectation (cf online editing such as google docs) is that you can't/shouldn't be able to accidentally lose input. great idea Simon On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 at 00:23, Petko Yotov <5...@5ko.fr> wrote: > Currently by default PmWiki doesn't warn when people edit a page, and > try to move away from the edit form without saving. > > We have $EnableNotSavedWarning but it needs to be enabled in config.php > by the administrator. > > I added it to sample-config.php, but I wonder if instead we should > simply enable it by default. > > I believe the setting dramatically improves the user experience and > saves a lot of frustration, especially with inexperienced editors and > administrators (who have yet to read the documentation and enable the > setting). > > The setting, enabled, might possibly interfere with some custom edit > forms, although I am not aware of such a case, or with some of the > existing recipes that do exactly this. > > If we enable it by default, anyone who doesn't need this feature can > disable it with > > $EnableNotSavedWarning = 0; > > Even if there might be existing administrators who may be annoyed to add > this line when they upgrade, I feel the benefit from having the feature > enabled outweighs the downside. > > Thoughts? > > Petko > > _______________________________________________ > pmwiki-users mailing list > pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com > http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users >
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