How to protect a form from accidentally losing data
Posted by Jim Morris on Tue Nov 14 22:47:44 -0800 2006
Here is a good one, your users are complaining that they have spent 5 minutes filling in a web form, then lose it all by clicking on a link away from the form, and back arrow doesn't restore the fields that were entered. (At least on IE).
I saw an interesting design in the Rails Recipes book for saving form data at regular intervals, but I didn't like the overhead of that one.
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