On May 15, 5:47 pm, John Murtari <jmurt...@thebook.comwrote:
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Folks,
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We are working on upgrading a web based application that allows the
user to type quite a long essay and then submit it to the web site for
processing. Occasionally, the user will lose their session/connection
to the web site/internet -- so after typing for 'hours', they hit
submit and end up back at the login page and often times lose all
their typing.
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Javascript seemed like a good tool to use at the user end of the
connection -- they hit submit and we 'save' a local copy of the form
contents and give them an easy way to retrieve it if a session is
lost.
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Found a nice approach and a great tutorial using cookies athttp://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/jsexamples/saveForm.htmlit
also supports periodic background saves before submit.
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The only problem is a 4K limit on data we can save. We had
considered an AJAX type approach and periodically save data to
the web server, but that may be more work/complexity than it is
worth. I'd welcome any thoughts/recommendations.
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John
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but saving using ajax, would be pretty easy and worth the effort. Save
as draft as in gmail shouldnt lock things up and you could offer a
button, either way (auto or manual) the errr would come back a lot
quicker and the user could take their own steps to save what they'd
done. So you could at least warn them of any issues, even if you do a
"null" has session gone post.
