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Websites can find better solutions if we kill this annoying feature. We have local storage in all browsers. Rather than prompting why not save it and recover wh
by atishay811 10y ago
Websites can find better solutions if we kill this annoying feature. We have local storage in all browsers. Rather than prompting why not save it and recover when the user comes back. The users will always prefer this. It saves data even when the website crashes or the connectivity is lost and there is some important data on the page. Why have a feature that is abused more often than used especially there is no case where it is the only/best solution.
- deathhand 10y agoI agree. This thought process comes from a different era and has just continued to perpetuate itself. If you are working on insanely* large files then that box makes sense, otherwise we have the technology to save the user the headache. *insanely large is anything that takes up 75% of whatever computer bottlenecks first at the time of reading this comment(Memory, processor)
- rtpg 10y agoIt's not always that clear. If I leave a page, how is one to know whether that was intentional or not? If it's intentional, you don't want to pull the data back up (people want a "fresh copy") If it's not intentional, you do want to pull the data back up. Though of course you can make something like a "New Copy" button, but then that presents its own challenges.
- ozi 10y agoThat no longer makes sense unless it isn't feasible to preserve the change history along with current state...