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Makes a lot of sense, if you kept a transparent source control of every change made to something and constantly updated it on each change. The issue though is h

by robryan 16y ago

Makes a lot of sense, if you kept a transparent source control of every change made to something and constantly updated it on each change. The issue though is how everyone is used to save. I guess a regular save can be the same idea as a tag in version control with the automated stuff to, I think the next OSX was doing something like this?

gwern 16y ago
> Makes a lot of sense, if you kept a transparent source control of every change made to something and constantly updated it on each change. The issue though is how everyone is used to save. True enough, but they're also getting used to transparent saving. You don't 'save' your state in Gmail; if Firefox or your computer crashes, you didn't 'save' the current tab state. And so on. The state is just there and always up-to-date. If you look, you can see how they are saving in the background every X seconds (such as Gmail's composition warning), but I imagine most people simply gloss over that.