134987 - Confirm reload if form data has been entered

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Description

[Brian Hunt]

When C-R is hit, or View-Reload, the browser should confirm that the user will
lose information if they continue.  This happens, in the least, with
Cache-Control: no-store flag in the server's response header.  In order to
remain compliant with RFC 2616, the content must be deleted upon a refresh. 
However, in the event that the user has entered information into the browser,
the loss of their input, without question or hesitation, is somewhat ... evil
... as well as a source of enormous frustration for me, personally.  I believe
it should be addressed, and I believe it to be a relatively simple fix.

See Bug 133946 for more details on my embitterment. :)

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

How does one tell whether the user has entered data on the page?  Or do we want
to trigger this for all no-store pages?

Comment 2

[Brian Hunt]

------- Additional Comment #1 From Boris Zbarsky (out of town till mid-April)
2002-04-02 17:49 -------

How does one tell whether the user has entered data on the page?  Or do we want
to trigger this for all no-store pages?
--

The two apparent options that arise are: (1) page dirty flag or (2) assume dirty
and trigger for all no-store pages.

I prefer the page dirty flag, which can be implemented functionally by comparing
all form data to the default data from the HTML/DOM.  However, this is a more
complex solution, with no added benefit, IMO.  Prompting in all no store cases
is hardly a nuisance in comparison to the extreme alternative.

The issue in question is the permanent destruction of user data, which can
happen with a single absolute operation, C-R, which just happens to be adjacent
to C-T, the ever so popular new-tab key set.

Comment 3

[timeless]

uid is being phased out.

Comment 4

[Daniel Wang]

related: bug 48333

Comment 5

[Blake Ross]

Reassigning obsolete bugs to their respective Seamonkey owners (i.e. nobody). 
If you want this fixed for Firefox, change the Product and Component accordingly
and reassign back to me.

Comment 6

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter "spam" on "guifeatures-nobody-20080610".