failed posts

[MattL]

Hi Jim,

I wrote up this great big essay on how I thought the SEO and Web Site Design sections should be flattened with fewer, broadly categorized boards.

Unfortunately, the newthread.php script timed out and all my beautiful text went to bit heaven.

Also, this editor keeps flipping to centered text at size 1.

-Matt

[Jim Messenger]

Hi MattL,

Sorry to hear that you lost a post. How long before it timed out? I have never had it happen to me, allthough, I usually write long posts in word and then cut & paste. I'll ask the programmers to look into it.

Thanks for letting us know.

Jim

[MattL]

It seemed around 90 seconds, then I got a blank page. I tried to repost, but my form content wasn't preserved.

The center/formatting thing is just as annoying. Am I the only one seeing it?

-Matt

[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.

[MattL]

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

[Jim Messenger]

Thanks for the tip Matt.

I'll check around and see if there is a hack for this.