- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:42:32 -0800
2010/2/11 Scott Gonz?lez <scott.gonzalez at gmail.com>: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage at gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> I commonly see them put to *good* use by editting applications, >> warning you if you attempt to leave the page without saving. ?It has >> saved me from accidentally lost effort just in the past few days in >> both my email and one of my wikis. > > I use dialogs in this fashion as well. Users get very frustrated when they > accidentally leave a page with unsaved content and this is the easiest > improvement for most developers to make. However you can accomplish this using the onbeforeunload return value. No need to open modal dialogs using showModalDialog/input()/alert() etc. Though I'm not sure what exactly Ojan is proposing we forbid? / Jonas
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