[Issuetracker-development] Autosave feature in beta stage

[Peter B. <pe...@gm...>]

The new autosave feature is now included in the CVS version for those
few who use it. It's still beta because it only works for "Add
Issue":http://www.issuetrackerproduct.com/Demo/AddIssue and "Quick Add
Issue":http://www.issuetrackerproduct.com/Demo/QuickAddIssue so far.

Last month the feature was started and there's a "news blob about it
here":http://www.issuetrackerproduct.com/News/autosave-development

Recap: Suppose you're starting to write a long bug report and how a
particular bug can crash the computer. As you're writing the bug
report you test your code one more time to paste in some error
messages. As you do this, unsurprisingly your whole computer crashes.
Have you lost the unsaved text you entered for the bug report? No. You
simply return to the "Add
Issue":http://www.issuetrackerproduct.com/Demo/AddIssue form again and
there your previously entered text is saved as a draft to your name.

Back then it only worked for the "Add Issue" page but now it has also
been added to the "Quick Add Issue" form. When you use the Quick Add
Issue you get absolutely no noisy blather about your form being
autosaved. It just works and only becomes interesting those few times
your browser or computer crashes or if you accidently just close the
browser window you were using to write up the issue.

The next release, 0.6.9 will have this feature included. It should
then also be able to autosave followups. **Bare in mind** that for the
autosave feature to work you must enable "Save drafts" on your
issuetracker and your browser must have JavaScript support and then
support for AJAX (Asyncrounous Javascript And XML) something that
Opera 7 doesn't have.

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