[pmwiki-users] New user's problem: Edit -> Preview -> Edit removes changes

[Neil Herber]

At 2006-04-07  01:18 PM +0200, christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com is 
rumored to have said:
>I've seen this happen repeatedly now with new users... So I think
>something could be improved in the GUI here. How about the following idea:
>
>What if the text of the edit link was changed when a page is being
>previewed? The text could for instance be changed from 'edit' to 'edit
>(discard changes)'. This text isn't really good, but I hope the idea comes
>across...

There was a very similar thread about 2 weeks ago. I think Hans 
actually came up with a variant of his Gemini skin that completely 
removed the "normal" action links when editing.

I was in favor of completely removing the links, while others 
commented that they used them all the time.

I does seem counterintuitive to have an "edit" button that really 
acts like a "cancel and re-edit" button.


Neil

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