16359 - HTML composer autosave

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, enhancement)

Description

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Save document in certain intervall to have something to recover to in case of
crash or similar.

Given how often Comm. 4.7 crashes, I consider this as important.

Comment 1

[buster]

yeah, me too.  marking as dogfood, waiting for feature approval.

Comment 2

[leger]

Sorry, not need for Dogfood.  At least we can Save.  Will be Release
Noted. Putting on [PDT-] radar.

Comment 3

[rubydoo123]

changing this to a feature bug and tracking in 10770, also setting milestone to
M15 -- post beta

Comment 4

[rubydoo123]

*** Bug 21213 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[leger]

Putting dogfood in the keyword field.

Comment 6

[Joe Francis]

to sfraser

Comment 7

[Kathleen :Brade]

I talked to Bijal, we are going to push this off.  We'd love to get help from 
anyone else who can make this work.

Comment 8

[rubydoo123]

changing ownership to me, removing dogffod and whiteboard info

Comment 9

[rubydoo123]

future

Comment 10

[rubydoo123]

reassigning to sfraser

Comment 11

[Ryan Cassin]

If you don't mind, I'll take this one off sfraser's hands. I've already got 
half the code implemented, but I just haven't had the chance to assign to 
myself. It'll be done by the end of the week.

Comment 12

[Blake Ross]

I'm going to work with Ryan on this...

Comment 13

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 19454.

Comment 14

[Ian Tommins ('thelem')]

Any progress on this?

Have you still got that code and after 18 months does it still work in Mozilla?

Comment 15

[rubydoo123]

removing myself from the cc list

Comment 16

[Mike Lee]

Mozblog autosave post using window.setInterval(), so composer might want to use
this?

Comment 17

[Ryan Cassin]

That's what I was using in my autosave code. I have a foundation of autosave 
code, just never got around to fixing the C++ stuff to make it all work. Now 
that there are going to be some big C++ changes in the editor (I think?) I'll 
just hold off until later on this.

Comment 18

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 147261 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 19

[Zenon Panoussis]

Three and a half years after the initial feature request, here's another "me
too". I just happened to lose more than an hour's work yet again and the crash
wasn't even Mozilla's fault. The functionality is already there, "save as
draft". All what's needed is a time trigger to go with it. 

Comment 20

[Martins Krikis]

I agree with comment #19. Not having autosave is simply not acceptable for
any editor. It doesn't have to be time-based. Keystroke, event-based, anything
along those lines would do. Still, basing this on timer is probably simplest,
even if not the most elegant. The GUI for it and ability to tweak it can wait.
Just put something in fast, so that people can recover their work. In my opinion
any other features come secondary to this. This should not be viewed as a 
request for enhancement, not having autosave is a critical bug IMO.

Comment 21

[Richard Lee]

Hi... an auto save feature would be very useful in Composer.  I occasionally
have problems with Mozilla locking up ( not sure what causes it... seems to have
something to do with removing PCMCIA adaptor ), and I'm really bummed out when I
lose what I'm working on.  I'm not a "frequent saver" as I've grown accustomed
to emacs autosaving every femtosecond.

Also, auto save on email composition would be nice, too.

Comment 22

[Richard Lee]

Hi... just lost a lot of work *again* in composer because it crashed and doesn't
have an auto save feature.  Please implement!

Comment 23

[Phil Karn]

(In reply to comment #22)
> Hi... just lost a lot of work *again* in composer because it crashed and doesn't
> have an auto save feature.  Please implement!

Here's another vote for autosave. Even the "stable" versions of Mozilla, at
least on Mac OS, regularly spontaneously abort for no apparent reason, sometimes
when I'm nearing the end of a lengthy piece of email. This is intolerable!!

"Just hit Save occasionally" is not an acceptable answer. Sure, I try to
remember do that. But sometimes I forget -- like when I'm in the midst of
composing an unusually long and involved email that requires a lot of concentration.

Somebody said it earlier: an editor without an autosave feature is simply not
acceptable.

Comment 24

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 252799 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 25

[Prognathous]

[e-mail], is there any reason why you've added the word "HTML" to the
summary? Judging from comment 0, the dupes and the component of this bug, it
seems to be a bit misleading.

Prog.

Comment 26

[Eyal Rozenberg]

I would think not just HTML composer, but any field, in the browser and in
mailnews, in which a user may enter a large amount of text, should be autosaved.
See my almost-dupe bug 254955.

Comment 27

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

This bug is about the application "Composer", which creates web pages.

Comment 28

[Robert T. Drury]

Need autosave for mail too.  Typical problem is compose large email while
surfing sites for references.  Encounter site with java or some applet that
makes mozilla freeze up or crash - then I lose my composed email.  Happens to me
all the time.

Comment 29

[Barry Edwin GIlmour]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008040601 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre Mail/News
SM auto-save works fine in the email client, but is still dysfunctional in the Composer.

Comment 30

[Andrew Schultz]

auto save is non trivial and composer is basically unknowned.  if you want this feature, you're going to have to write the patch.  :)