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Old 09-15-2006, 10:17 PM
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Originally Posted by kensmith
Matt I have taken 10 minutes before on a post, start it then get side tracked by phone call or something, and it has never timed out on me. Also the centering issue is one that I haven't run into.

Yeah, it wasn't like that though... I was here, wrote the post, clicked the "Submit" button, and it just sat there, eventually timing out to a "Page cannot be displayed". I hit Refresh, but the post didn't resubmit. And, because this rich editor isn't a form field, I couldn't go back and retry -- it was gone.

From a technical standpoint, Jim -- and this is something I will probably start doing on my own sites -- maybe you could save the content of the field to a cookie before posting, then clear the cookie after a successful post. That way, if it fails, the user can hit back and retry.

-Matt
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