Archive for November, 2008

Autosaving Draft Comments and Reviews

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Carsurvey.org now autosaves draft comments and reviews every 30 seconds, as long as JavaScript and cookies are enabled in a visitor’s browser. This is similar to the autosave features in WordPress or Gmail.

For most visitors, this means:

  • If your browser crashes and you return to the site, your in progress review or comment will be automatically recovered for you
  • If you’re writing a long review or comment, you don’t have to do it all in one session, as drafts are stored for 7 days

Getting this feature working across browsers was made much easier by the wonderful jQuery JavaScript library; I can’t recommend it highly enough.