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Re: Show HN: garlic.js - don't let your users lose their form data

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Thinking about it, I'm mildly amazed that the browsers themselves didn't solve this problem back in 1996 or so.

Maybe it's a security issue? With some sites you might not want that information saved, perhaps.

Good call. Not thought about that. At least, it is shown to the user, and not hidden and recorded secretly.

Re: Show HN: garlic.js - don't let your users lose their form data

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I was thinking about this the other day and I thought "How is this not standard!?" Good job!

It's not standard because people frequently do things like type a credit card number into a form on a public computer. Lots of potential for privacy breaches.

Re: Show HN: garlic.js - don't let your users lose their form data

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Ruben, can you please share your "great to have" Javascript libraries list? It sounds promising.

It's still a work in progress, but of course! I have many (many!) bookmarked pages with more libraries in my instapaper feed, some emails to myself and a few emacs .org files I use as buckets. I just decided to start collecting them last week and made a quick sweep-clean with the most recent tabs I had open and the few I had linked to recently: 1.1 Markdown 1.1.1 http:// attacklab.net/showdown/ 1.2 DBs 1.2.1 http://j…

Nice!

You should gather that in a cool markdown file on a github repo that every one could fork and suggest / add their own good libs :)

Re: Show HN: garlic.js - don't let your users lose their form data

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Ruben, can you please share your "great to have" Javascript libraries list? It sounds promising.

It's still a work in progress, but of course! I have many (many!) bookmarked pages with more libraries in my instapaper feed, some emails to myself and a few emacs .org files I use as buckets. I just decided to start collecting them last week and made a quick sweep-clean with the most recent tabs I had open and the few I had linked to recently: 1.1 Markdown 1.1.1 http:// attacklab.net/showdown/ 1.2 DBs 1.2.1 http://j…

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Re: Show HN: garlic.js - don't let your users lose their form data

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I think the desire for this kind of project is very reasonably based, and it looks like you have done great work on most of the implementation. I have one gripe with it, though. It would be nice if the documentation mentioned that garlic.js requires an HTML5 browser with localStorage implemented. Remember, there are people who are still using Internet Explorer 6 and 7, and these browsers are incompatible [1]. This is…

For all intents and purposes, IE6 and IE7 are dead. They account for less than 1.5% of worldwide browsers [1]. At this point, seems okay to leave out. [1] http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version_partially_combine...

Sure you can quote stats all day, but it depends on your target audience. If you are running a tech website (such as HN/TC/Reddit/etc) you will see a HUGE portion of visitors using browsers like Chrome/Firefox and hardly any IE.

However if you are building websites that regular people use they still use XP and IE7... so much so that it can account for 10-30% of your website traffic.. It really pains me when HTML frameworks like Foundation 3.x drop support for IE7[1] and below because there is still the userbase there.

IE7/8 is not dead for most of the world yet. People who run statcounter websites are getting data from people who run their tools. I would trust if someone like Google Analytics released an average browser usage as they are more widely used. Who the F uses statcounter nowadays?

[1] Though you can do tricks/hacks to make it work for IE7.

Re: Show HN: garlic.js - don't let your users lose their form data

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> don't let your users lose their form data This is a huge problem, and is the reason I've had Lazarus installed for a few years now. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/lazarus-form-... Apparently it exists for Chrome now, too.

Form content recall is a native Chrome feature now.

Re: Show HN: garlic.js - don't let your users lose their form data

#50

I think the desire for this kind of project is very reasonably based, and it looks like you have done great work on most of the implementation. I have one gripe with it, though. It would be nice if the documentation mentioned that garlic.js requires an HTML5 browser with localStorage implemented. Remember, there are people who are still using Internet Explorer 6 and 7, and these browsers are incompatible [1]. This is…

I would suggest using userData [1] for IE 6 and 7.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533007%28v=vs.85%2...

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