Modifed Flag - preventing lost work

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I use IE for browswer based email.

There have been times when I have written a letter, only to accidently close
the browser, thus losing all my work.

It would be great if Internet Explorer supported a "modified flag". This
would allow a user to be warned if data were about to be lost.

One might have to grant permission to a web site to make use of this (to
avoid obnoxious sites from setting the modified flag whenever a user visits
the site).

Ed Austin
 
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I use IE for browswer based email.

There have been times when I have written a letter, only to
accidently close the browser, thus losing all my work.

It would be great if Internet Explorer supported a "modified flag".
This would allow a user to be warned if data were about to be lost.

One might have to grant permission to a web site to make use of this
(to avoid obnoxious sites from setting the modified flag whenever a
user visits the site).

Ed Austin
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Interesting idea - another might be to compose the emails in notepad (easy
enough to run from a command line - winkey + r > type notepad > press enter)
or on some RARE occasions you're lucky and you can hit the back button (if
it died when going to the send page) and still see your data there. That's
not often but it DOES happen once in a while.

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/
http://kgiii.info/

"We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind,
which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply
there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations." -
Sherlock Holmes
 
I do sometimes compose in notepad or another editor for this very reason. but
it would be convenient not to have to do this.

Actually, I sometimes use wordpad, as it's nice to be able to use bolding,
italics, etc.

It would be much more convenient not to have to do this, though (and
sometimes I don't bother, which can bite me).
 
In WhiteFang <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
I do sometimes compose in notepad or another editor for this very
reason. but it would be convenient not to have to do this.

Actually, I sometimes use wordpad, as it's nice to be able to use
bolding, italics, etc.

It would be much more convenient not to have to do this, though (and
sometimes I don't bother, which can bite me).
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Sounds like a perfectly rational idea to me. Not every one uses an email
client and IE could have something like that but I suspect you'll see it
enabled (not in the browser but in the page itself) as more and more sites
start to move towards things like AJAX.

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/
http://kgiii.info/

"We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind,
which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply
there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations." -
Sherlock Holmes
 
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