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Bitten by poor web application design again. After having to pause one of my edits to take care of another matter, I returned a bit later, finished my edit, and submitted it. However, my session had timed out. Much to my surprise, MediaWiki did not preserve my edit. I thought MediaWiki was classier than that. | Bitten by poor web application design again. After having to pause one of my edits to take care of another matter, I returned a bit later, finished my edit, and submitted it. However, my session had timed out. Much to my surprise, MediaWiki did not preserve my edit. I thought MediaWiki was classier than that. | ||
| − | It is a newbie mistake to have a web application lose | + | It is a newbie web developer mistake to have a web application lose someones edit due to a session timeout. The proper action is to save the edited data, give the user a chance to log back in, and then apply the edit or return them to the edit page without losing the edit. I'm often surprised at how many web applications exhibit this glaring flaw...so many, that I almost consider it my own mistake for not copying the text to notepad before submitting. But it is not my own mistake. It's the web application's mistake. A mistake that I am really growing tired of seeing again and again and again... |
Revision as of 18:51, 26 May 2011
Bitten by poor web application design again. After having to pause one of my edits to take care of another matter, I returned a bit later, finished my edit, and submitted it. However, my session had timed out. Much to my surprise, MediaWiki did not preserve my edit. I thought MediaWiki was classier than that.
It is a newbie web developer mistake to have a web application lose someones edit due to a session timeout. The proper action is to save the edited data, give the user a chance to log back in, and then apply the edit or return them to the edit page without losing the edit. I'm often surprised at how many web applications exhibit this glaring flaw...so many, that I almost consider it my own mistake for not copying the text to notepad before submitting. But it is not my own mistake. It's the web application's mistake. A mistake that I am really growing tired of seeing again and again and again...
