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spaceman #1
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Subject: Auto-copy message while posting
A neat suggestion I would say, is that the script does the auto-copy (Selecting all text and copy to Windows's clipboard) upon pressing down "Create topic" or "Save" button while posting. This will prevent the message from disappearing if the server is down. It's quite annoying when the page is not loaded up (Cannot find server) when switching between pages, so pressing the "Back" button on your browser will bring u back to the posting form with a totally *blank* textarea.

P/s: I think it can be implemented using Javascript and I know some users might have turned off Javascript on their browser. Hope u come up with a better solution to this. Anyway there should be a note below the button or somewhere else to notify the user about this feature, that they can retrieve (Ctrl+V) their supposedly "lost" message! ;-)
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Yves (Administrator) #2
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Member since Jan 2004 · 3855 posts · Location: Erlangen, Germany
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Use another browser that correctly remembers form input. Firefox i.e. (You see why I went away from IE?) And I don't think it's a good idea to purge the users clipboard without to ask him everytime saving a post, and I also don't think it'd be a good idea to ask him everytime... ;)

PS: Don't use SSL with IE because then servers will likely not be "found". Seems to be a common IE 5.5+ (or earlier) problem, dunno why they cannot get it fixed. Bad SSL implementation maybe? (As so many things...)
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