May 17
#2: Autosave in web apps! Let your clients say how much they love you
Most desktop applications have this feature. But what about web applications or websites? Wordpress has this feature? Do other have it? Do your web applications have it?
How many of you are guilty? My guess is that most of you have never though of this, because you have never encountered this issue. I always wanted to implement this into the web apps I build, but I said I got used in the past to CTRL + A, CTRL + C from time to time, in case of something happens.
Something did happen to me a few minutes back, when I accidentally pressed the backspace key, which automatically sent me to the last previous page. This happened after I wrote about 200 words in an article which I was almost about to finish and publish it. Unfortunately, it is lost as I did not do the usual CTRL + A/C thing.
What hurts the most is that I could have easily implemented autosave into the application I was using, but I got to lazy. Now, I have to start all over again, and I know for certain that the article will never be the same. Moreover, if you or your clients using PCs with Windows, you may get a crash, instead of a backspace. This means that the CTRL + A/C trick will not work.
Therefore, always implement in your web applications autosave when editing text! When the inevitable happens and clients won’t lose their work, they will call and say “We love you”.
Cheers!
