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Confirmatino dialog when closing post screen
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Date:
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Sun, 7 Apr 2002 01:49:51 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Matthew Gerber writes:
> Todd,
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> I just spent about an hour, on and off, typing a deep, well thought out
> message to post via the Web interface. Lack of sleep and clumsy fingers made
> me close the window before posting the message to the intended groups.
> Stupid me.
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> I was wondering if it might be possible to develop a new feature for the Web
> interface along these lines: a script (Java, CGI, whatever) attached to the
> Post To page that pops up a warning box (a'la most software) to ask "You
> were composing a message. Are you sure you want to close this page? You may
> lose the message you were working on." whenever a click is made anywhere but
> in the text boxes for the message or on the Preview or Post buttons.
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> I have seen similar things on the Web (NickJR comes to mind, asking if you
> are sure you want to leave the current "kids" area for a "parents" area). I
> think this would be a handy feature for LUGNET as well, and might save some
> painful banging-of-the-head-on-the-wall in the long run.
Another suggestion
ROSCO
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| Todd, I just spent about an hour, on and off, typing a deep, well thought out message to post via the Web interface. Lack of sleep and clumsy fingers made me close the window before posting the message to the intended groups. Stupid me. I was (...) (23 years ago, 20-May-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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