I think Confluence from Atlassian has solved quite nicely. When I edit or create a new page in the wiki, the content is saved in the background. If I navigate away from the form, and return at a later stage to either the page I was editing or the new page for, the present a notice above the form with the following text: "A new page you were adding on 2008-10-17 07:10 called %u201Ctestpage %u201D was not saved. Do you want to resume editing or discard it? " (Resume edit and discard is behaving as link buttons). Unless I explisitly clicks the save button, it is not committed to the live content of the wiki.
The question here shold not be if you should save the data, but rather how should you handle the process. With the stability of browser and the possibilities of accidental navigating away from the form, you should save all data to a temporary storage. The challenge is how to present the user with automatically saved data. Should the entered data be available to other users, or just the user who has started to enter it into the form? Andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=34463 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
