I would love to get autosave feature. My browser has crashed so many times, so everytime when I'm writing something longer, I have to use something like Notepad that can be easily saved anytime I want.
*Stryn* 2014-11-10 0:25 GMT+02:00 Vito <[email protected]>: > An online autosave with certain limitations would be even better. > > I'm wondering about *private* autosaved drafts for registered users, > allowing, for example, 3 autosaved revs (triggered by timers/big edit > delta) from the 2 last articles user is editing. > > Vito > > Inviato con AquaMail per Android > http://www.aqua-mail.com > > > Il 09 novembre 2014 23:02:40 Derk-Jan Hartman < > [email protected]> ha scritto: > > Something else that I have had in the pipeline for a long while is >> autosave drafts. Basically, whenever you type, the article is saved to your >> local computer. If the browser crashes, and you visit the same article, it >> will prompt you for recovery. Making a Special:Autosave drafts index page >> would be trivial. >> >> Implementation: >> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/5130/ <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/ >> r/#/c/5130/> >> >> Of this, I also have an alternate implementation: >> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/157818/ <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/ >> r/#/c/157818/> >> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/159626/ <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/ >> r/#/c/159626/> >> >> The original one is based on code by Joancreus and uses localStorage. It >> works, quite well actually, but while improving it, I became of the opinion >> that localStorage is basically so limited in storage and gives you so >> little feedback as an API and an enduser, that it's not really suited for >> much more than usersettings (big cookies). Not for saving potentially >> multiple 1MB articles, with structured details. >> >> As a storage layer, indexedDB is much nicer in that regard. API wise, >> it's a bit convoluted, but a jQuery plugin makes it usable and readable. >> There are WebSQL polyfills for platforms that don't have indexedDB, which >> would allow us to support browsers of the past 6 years. >> >> I would like some opinions on which way to go here. Additionally, i would >> love to hear what else people think would be required to make this usable >> for the Wikipedia audience and the naming. Would this be Drafts ? Autosave >> drafts ? autosave ? Would you say 'recover' when asking the user to use the >> version from drafts, or just 'use draft' etc? >> >> Note that the '2nd' version also has a few more improvements like a >> separate RL module and a preference option, but those can easily be added >> to the first implementation as well. >> >> DJ >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
