This is why I use the program Blogjet. I lost to many posts due to "hiccups" in the browser.
An added benefit to using blogjet is that you can save draft posts locally to your hard drive. Adding images is also a breeze.
There are other types of posting software, ecto comes to mind, but look into it. Saving one epic post is worth the price of admission.
William Meloney
· 3 years ago
Doug:
Please don't hate Blogspot because it is beautiful... You gotta love it's save-your-work-on-the-fly functionality...
Or, you could compose your posts in Google Docs which also has an auto-save functionality.
Rijk
· 3 years ago
Eehm... don't want to rub it in, but Opera has had this feature for some time - since Opera 7 IIRC. Form content will be cached until you close the tab, so pressing 'Back' will restore the content of form fields. The most recent releases of the others, Firefox 2.0 and MSIE 7.0 also offer this now, copying from the innovator :)
Things might go wrong, especially in MSIE and Firefox, if your compose field is on a page that forbids any caching. Opera is a bit more conversative, and more often eschews refreshing the page on pressing 'Back'.
Douglas Karr
· 3 years ago
That's fantastic feedback! Thanks, everyone!
Tom: I checked out Blogjet, unfortunately there's no Mac version. :( It looks like a great little app, though!
William: I actually had my blog on blogspot for quite a while. I liked it but once I started to attract some attention, I really wanted my own domain. I didn't want to Blogger to 'own' me and my content. I didn't realize they had that feature, though. I'm going to do some looking and see if I can find a similar feature for WordPress.
RIJK: Who knew? Thanks so much for sharing that with me. I'm going to download Opera 9 and see how I like it!
Noah
· 3 years ago
I had an idea of a possible solution to your problem. You could install a key logger to capture all of your key strokes. Then, in the event that you navigate away from a partially completed form, you could just open up your key log file and easily find everything you typed.
I'm not lucky enough to have a mac, but I'm sure you could find a free key logger for it. Here's one I found from a quick Google search:
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An added benefit to using blogjet is that you can save draft posts locally to your hard drive. Adding images is also a breeze.
There are other types of posting software, ecto comes to mind, but look into it. Saving one epic post is worth the price of admission.
Please don't hate Blogspot because it is beautiful... You gotta love it's save-your-work-on-the-fly functionality...
Or, you could compose your posts in Google Docs which also has an auto-save functionality.
Things might go wrong, especially in MSIE and Firefox, if your compose field is on a page that forbids any caching. Opera is a bit more conversative, and more often eschews refreshing the page on pressing 'Back'.
Tom: I checked out Blogjet, unfortunately there's no Mac version. :( It looks like a great little app, though!
William: I actually had my blog on blogspot for quite a while. I liked it but once I started to attract some attention, I really wanted my own domain. I didn't want to Blogger to 'own' me and my content. I didn't realize they had that feature, though. I'm going to do some looking and see if I can find a similar feature for WordPress.
RIJK: Who knew? Thanks so much for sharing that with me. I'm going to download Opera 9 and see how I like it!
I'm not lucky enough to have a mac, but I'm sure you could find a free key logger for it. Here's one I found from a quick Google search:
http://www.securemac.com/typerecorder.php
(no, I don't work for that company!)