Replies to post #10502 on The Question and Answer Board (IHUB)

[Mattu]

Bird,

I think this might happen *really* often on computers that are a little older or the browser software hasn't been updated.

I didn't want to say anything, until it happened, because I haven't tinkered with javascript in a long while, but I think that trying to save "temp/session" data between two pages praying that javascript works (window.back()) is gonna be real risky. On many browsers. Too many variables.

So if it does prove risky, we better pass that stuff forward AND backward via FORM POST. That's the way I did it on a ColdFusion board I made...

MB

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

That happened to me last night when I was writing the rather long post that announced the arrival of that feature. I was very upset about it, but thought I figured out what'd happened.

Let me know if this might've been your scenario, too:

If you're writing a message in one browser window, and open another browser window and send someone a quick PM (as I was doing), or anything else that *can* make use of the Preview feature, your original message can disappear when you come back from Preview. This is because I'm storing the message in a session variable and if you've got another session going, it can clear the message you've got going.

For all I know (I need to check on this), even having another window open to the Favorites page can cause this. The auto refresh (or even a manual one) could very well be resetting session variables.

I'll have to dig in further and see if I need to temporarily store the message another way.

Also noticed it seems to be missing some of the letters when returning from preview every so often.

I'll double-check this, but I'm pretty sure what I'm storing is the original message. There's a LOT of code involved, and I do have to run the message through a lot of functions before submitting it to the spellcheck process and again to display it in Preview format, so it's possible I've slipped up and am sending you back to the Edit screen with a version of the message that I've run through a function.