[sakai-core-team] Student feedback on Forums tool

[Matthew Jones]

They could file it, but without a contributed patch something like this
would likely just be closed out as "No Resources". This autosave is a
problem that crosses tool boundaries not specific to forums, but to every
WYSIWYG. The jira related to autosave on CKEditor is

https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-22495

Unfortunately as of March 2014 I didn't seen a CKEditor plugin that works
reliability and is updated regularly. I'd be afraid of taking "ownership"
of any plugin like this. If upstream development stopped we'd be stuck with
expected functionality that 'd have to continue to maintain. (Like some
other CKEditor plugins)

The ideal for CKEditor is usually either it's an semi-officially supported
module or it's an actively maintained module in Drupal (that are generally
somewhat compatible code wise, but the license usually isn't).

Looking at the plugins again, the one (http://ckeditor.com/addon/autosave)
has been updating since I last left the comment to fix the bug I was
seeing, so maybe that's worth a revisit again.



On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Neal Caidin <neal.caidin at apereo.org> wrote:

> Hi Sakai core team,
>
> A student from Antioch University has this request (see below). Should I
> open a Jira feature request on this? What's the best next step?
>
> "I was directed to you by the Antioch helpdesk.  I wanted to make a
> suggestion on your site, namely, to have posts in discussions forms
> either autosave OR have a prompt that asks if you're sure you want to
> leave.
>
> I have, on more than one occasion, been timed out and lost work or
> accidentally hit the back button on my browser and lost my work.  It
> would be so cool if this could change.
>
> Thanks for considering my request.  I'd love to hear back from you! "
>
> Thanks,
> Neal
>
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> Neal Caidin
> Sakai Community Coordinator
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