Yeah, yeah, there is the "Save Draft" button, but I just lost an e-mail. You know, you get all wrapped up in writing and forget to save sometimes. The auto-save to cookie feature on Blogger saves me all the time when I need to make a recovery. |
Brian, how did you lose your mail? If you navigate away without saving a draft, don't you get an alert asking if you really want to abandon your composition? |
I closed the browser. It could have happened in more ways than one. What if the power went out? |
I'm not saying it's not a good idea, but if Gmail stored your partially-composed message in a cookie that persisted across browser sessions it would be a pretty big security hole. Anyone with access to your computer would be able to get at the contents of that cookie and read your partially-composed message. Maybe not a big deal if it's your home personal machine, but I could imagine that cookie existing pretty often on shard computers in schools, libraries, and cafes...
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Maybe some sort of encrypted version... not sure if that's possible in any safe way. |
Yes, I can see how that could be a problem. What if the cookie was erased as soon as an e-mail was successfully sent or saved as a draft, in addition to Philipp's idea of being encrypted? That way it's only saved in a worst case scenario, and even then it can't be read. |
Google could also do away with the idea of a "save draft" button and stream messages back to the plex by default, only making them visible if the user didn't send a message or it meets some criteria that seem like they might have "lost" it. https is already being used so a third party reading them shouldn't be a problem. Perhaps there would be privacy concerns over this, so it would be an option in your user preferences ala:
__ Enable auto-recovery
I think this would be the perfect use for ajax. |
