https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37992

--- Comment #32 from Nemo_bis <[email protected]> 2012-10-24 16:06:35 UTC 
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(In reply to comment #31)
> (In reply to comment #19)
> > ... modern Web browsers have auto-save.
> 
> That's a good point. A couple of years ago this extension would have been
> really appreciated by me, but nowadays it has become almost superfluous, 
> thanks
> to the improvement of the browsers' auto-save capabilities (Firefox, for one,
> can recover what you have typed even in the case of a power failure).

I'm not aware of other browsers having the same capabilities, which I anyway
still see myself failing, not seldom. There are also many other chances to lose
an edit with actions that the browser can consider intentional. In short, it's
not a valid assumption that the wiki editor is using a human-like smart
browser.

> Another thing to consider is that, after such feature is deployed, users will
> generally feel safer about starting an edit and postponing the save for hours
> later, posing a higher risk of edit conflicts (especially in larger wikis as
> Wikipedia).

I doubt so, and anyway it's easily configurable as far as I can see.

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