Okay Cplusplus.com....
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Could you please fix the expiration on login? Twice now have I tried to write an article on input and output redirection, and twice has it told me to register or login therefore losing my enitre article and example code written on the fly. Could something PLEASE be done about this as it's extremely annoying.
That can it be fixed so bbcode doesn't send you to the top of the textarea. I hate losing my place everytime I use bbcode.
That can it be fixed so bbcode doesn't send you to the top of the textarea. I hate losing my place everytime I use bbcode.
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Simple: write your article in a text editor or word processor and copy and paste it later. It'll give you more space to type anyway.
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helios, if you try that, you'll notice that the textarea is not recovered when you press the back button. If you move from the page and try to recover it, a standard browser does not recover it.
chrisname, there's no reason to write something other than the place you want to write it in. I just think it should be fixed as it's a problem.
chrisname, there's no reason to write something other than the place you want to write it in. I just think it should be fixed as it's a problem.
I think what helios is trying to say is that a standard [mainstream] browser doesn't exist. Mozilla, microsoft and and all the other major browser vendors have always supported more HTML codes than the standard specifies. In fact, there's a few things that Firefox doesn't] support because they can annoy users (such as a Javascript function to close a window: in Firefox you can only close a window that was opened by Javascript. I think it should be that you can only close a window where the command was sent to do so by pressing a button or link).
I don't think whether or not the contents of a form are remembered when you leave a page is part of any HTML standard.
Sure, the standard may not specifically say a browser is required to remember form contents, but it doesn't say a browser is required to have a 'Back' button, either.
Sure, the standard may not specifically say a browser is required to remember form contents, but it doesn't say a browser is required to have a 'Back' button, either.
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this should work i guess. while writing you article try to browse or click on a thread or somewhere on another window in the website every 5 or 10 minutes then go and write again
While we're commenting on the forum itself, could someone implement a mark as read for entire forums? I hate having to click the new icon for so many topics every time I log on, just to clear them out. (Ideally, we could go to the forums page and click on the new next to one of the forums, and it would clear all the new thread markers in that forum... but that doesn't work....)
EDIT: By the way, @computerquip, if you use firefox you can just get the lazarus extension. It preserves forms for later recovery, including stuff like posts. I've used it a few times and when I get long-winded it's a lifesaver.
EDIT: By the way, @computerquip, if you use firefox you can just get the lazarus extension. It preserves forms for later recovery, including stuff like posts. I've used it a few times and when I get long-winded it's a lifesaver.
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I agree -- logins should never expire, or should expire only when the browser is closed. And multiple logins should be permitted. It seems that if I log in from one system, I am logged off on the other.
| chrisname, there's no reason to write something other than the place you want to write it in. |
There are a wide assortment of reasons. If there weren't, we wouldn't have the enormous breadth of text/document editors available to us. If I were to put any significant amount of effort into creating an article intended to assist others in learning something, I would absolutely create it locally on my own PC. This gives me a local backup. It allows me to provide it via any medium of publication I so choose (cplusplus.com is not the only programming site I visit). It allows me to readily reformat it, convert it to any other document type (raw text, rich text, pdf, a variety of help file formats, a variety of document formats, etc.) I could email it on request. I could maintain my own compedium of self-authored articles if I was so inclined.
And perhaps the best reason of all is the one you've actually provided with this very thread.
To be honest, I can't really think of any reason NOT to keep the original copy as a local document, in a format of my own preference, completely under my own control.
| try checkin remember me when you log in |
that's the point of this post I think, on every other forum it does remember you by using "Cookies, brown coated lovely chocolate chip cookies"...
but this forum has been the first I've seen where that button does absolutely nothing.
On my computer it works fine
- sometimes happens that it doesn't remember me but when I refresh the page also the website memory seems to get refreshed -
- sometimes happens that it doesn't remember me but when I refresh the page also the website memory seems to get refreshed -
That happens to me, too. When I reload a page it seems that I'm suddenly logged in again. It's usually when I open links from this site that I get logged out.
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