Irish Cowboy Posted October 29, 2006 Share Posted October 29, 2006 so, those of us who use gmail (and everybody should, its a great setup they got), if you're writing for over so many minutes, your text is autosaved to a "drafts" folder.after so many complaints about peole writing lenghty posts at my forum & losing them to crashes, power outage, internet troubles, accidentally hit whatever key, etc, i cant help but think this'd be a really useful feature for a message board. Im uncertain exactly how it'd work, but i imagine its possible...any plans/chances for such a feature?ps, to those who know more about what to expect from IPB 2.2:1) ive read of a unviersal mod installer - is this exactly what it sounds like? with my faecesty grasp of php & coding in general, that could be really handy, tho ive no idea how itd work either.2) so, uh....this new layout really means all my skins/look are gone again? :( Everytime i upgrade, it takes forever to get enough skins to really give the place a feel, look sharp, and by then, i gotta hold off to upgrade till at least a few decent skins are going.....@#$%3) Some skins i use (especially the board's main one) leave the menus up top jumbled when viewed in firefox. i figure this is mostly the coding of the individual skin's fault, but has anyone seen/heard much about this being improved for 2.2?thanks in advance for any help offered here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon C Posted October 29, 2006 Share Posted October 29, 2006 I think that's a great suggestion in regards to the autosaving like drafts you've got there, Irish Cowboy, and would love to see this! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.KX Posted October 29, 2006 Share Posted October 29, 2006 I love the auto-save idea! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Cowboy Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 Right? I keep thinking it'd just be an amazing feature, but i dont know if its possible, much less this late in 2.2's release...mebbe for a future one? Is there any better place to have this where those who have a hand in its development might see it or comment? I'm certain its nothing they havent thought of themselves, just curious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomi Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 Nathan would love this...*snickers* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philouke Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 Should be great ! +1 dudes ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iMonkey Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 love the idea+1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange_Will Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 Right? I keep thinking it'd just be an amazing feature, but i dont know if its possible, much less this late in 2.2's release...mebbe for a future one? Is there any better place to have this where those who have a hand in its development might see it or comment? I'm certain its nothing they havent thought of themselves, just curious.Just do a quick javascript save to cookies? :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Cowboy Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 would that work? i was thinking an undo button that works would do it, but through gmail's autosave, ive never lost a thing, regardless of what's happened, so such a system'd be best, i think, assuming its possible.would making a poll for this get the idea more attention? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.KX Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 Whenever I make a feature suggestion it is accompanied by a poll, go figure. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dyelton Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 I asked for this very same thing with the 2.1 release and Invision clearly didn't "get it" then and I doubt they will now or any release in the near future. I agree that many users spend a lot of time on a post only to have an error occur when they post it or beforehand on their end.I certainly hope Invision does incorporate this in the future but for the 2.2 release I'd say this is much too late in the game for it to be added. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Michael Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 You could probably use ajax to write the contents of the post screen to a database field, it could periodically save that value as you type. One thing that wouldn't work for, though, is say you are writing a big long post and something on the website (like the database, or the server) goes down. At that point, you're no longer able to do the auto-saving. Wonder if it would be possible to pop up a javascript alert in those cases...Sounds pretty interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brunoXP Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 An auto-save feature would be reeeeeally helpful; specially on those long posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephanieD85 Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 That would be a big help :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 Great suggestion. I also absolutely despise when I'm writing a lengthy posts and then circumstance kills power.+1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange_Will Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 You could probably use ajax to write the contents of the post screen to a database field, it could periodically save that value as you type. One thing that wouldn't work for, though, is say you are writing a big long post and something on the website (like the database, or the server) goes down. At that point, you're no longer able to do the auto-saving. Wonder if it would be possible to pop up a javascript alert in those cases...Sounds pretty interesting.Why use Ajax? Use Javascript to send post commands to the server if you want to store them there, or I would think store the posts in cookies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allanrs Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 Agree that autosave would be really helpful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 Why use Ajax? Use Javascript to send post commands to the server if you want to store them there, or I would think store the posts in cookies.Using javascript to send post commands to the server is ajax. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon C Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 Yup, as FuSoYa said, it's basically Asynchronous Javascript. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mat Barrie Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 Yup, as FuSoYa said, it's basically Asynchronous Javascript... and XML (yes, I know that English says we should not then have the "A" capitalised in "AJAX") Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Cowboy Posted November 10, 2006 Share Posted November 10, 2006 You could probably use ajax to write the contents of the post screen to a database field, it could periodically save that value as you type. One thing that wouldn't work for, though, is say you are writing a big long post and something on the website (like the database, or the server) goes down. At that point, you're no longer able to do the auto-saving. Wonder if it would be possible to pop up a javascript alert in those cases...Sounds pretty interesting.howdy Fu.yeah, you got the idea...so is it a likely or even requested-before feature? do you often get members of the administration/development team in here commenting on suggestions & possibilities? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange_Will Posted November 10, 2006 Share Posted November 10, 2006 Using javascript to send post commands to the server is ajax.As mentioned above, you'd have to use XML processing ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.KX Posted November 10, 2006 Share Posted November 10, 2006 I really hope they incorporate this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted November 10, 2006 Share Posted November 10, 2006 As mentioned above, you'd have to use XML processing ;)Not necessarily, ajax doesn't have to consist of XML, features like updating your birthday in the new 2.2 profile use ajax and they don't use XML, this would work almost exactly the same way.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming)XML is sometimes used as the format for transferring data between the server and client, although any format will work, including preformatted HTML, plain text, JSON and even EBML. These files may be created dynamically by some form of server-side scripting.Is that enough bickering about semantics for you? :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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