https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36006
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Bug #: 36006
Summary: Warn before leaving the page when editing a message
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: minor
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Translate
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
Mobile Platform: ---
The Translate extension desperately needs a warning popup (onbeforeunload
handler) when leaving the page without saving a half-edited message. There are
at least two easy ways to accidentally navigate away and loose the half-edited
text (which is not terrible given that messages are typically 2-3 sentences at
most, but still quite annoying):
* Translate relies on hotkeys for saving; both browser and application support
for these is somewhat unreliable, thus depending on the language, pressing
something like alt-s might result in e.g. closing the tab.
* there is no support for typing non-english characters, so translators are
left with OS-provided Unicode input sequences. On Windows, that means
alt+(numbers from numerical keyboard); if numlock is accidentally disabled,
alt-4 will invoke the back button.
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