Blogger Solves One Problem To Counter Far Larger Problem
Because Blogger’s servers are the very definition of inadequate (you can look it up), the very talented Blogger team has come up with a way to prevent lost posts. From now on, a cookie will save your post as you type it. This is necessary because Bloggers servers can’t respond so often that lost posts are very common. First off, this should never have been necessary. Second, this is a brilliant idea, and just goes to show how good the guys at Blogger are. They deserve a higher role at Google, but instead seem to have been largely ignored. Third, this feature needs to be built into every single web page with a text box that has large amounts of input. Its just a smart feature. Hell, Microsoft should just build an autosave feature into Internet Explorer 7.
(via Biz Stone)
I seem to have lost the ability to copy-and-paste large blocks of text to the Blogger post dialogue. It gives a “Document contains no data” error in Firefox when I try to do pretty much anything afterwards (spellcheck, save, publish, etc.). I’ve verified that is the Backup cookies that are causing it, as deleting just the Backup cookies solves fixes the no data error (though I still can’t post). Anyone else having this problem? Or have any suggestions?
As good of an idea this is, if I can’t post, they need an option to disable it.
Comment by Michael Akerman | April 8, 2005
Nevermind. They fixed it. Or I fixed it. Or it fixed itself. At any rate, it’s fixed.
Comment by Michael Akerman | April 8, 2005
Personally I would have gone with session variables because of everyone that has cookies turned off, etc. But I guess on their over-burdened servers that might not be viable. Don’t know enough about session variables to be sure if that would be an issue or not.
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I suppose it’s a good idea, but I don’t really see it as addressing the problem. It’s a very rough band-aid for a much larger issue. They still need to address the larger issue that has been going on for quite some time now.
Comment by matt | April 8, 2005
Sessions wouldnt be a bad idea, but sessions are only good till the user browser is open. So, im guessing they want ppl to recover stuff after they have closed their browser.
Also in the case of multiple load-balancing servers, your session data might be fragmented across various servers, and that isnt any fun
Comment by Kashif Khan | April 9, 2005
good points. Still think they need to fix their load issues, but you’re right about the load balancing, etc
Comment by matt | April 9, 2005