Loosing what you wrote

[Sticks]

On more than one occasion, I have lost what I have written in the box which we illucidate our driblings.

One one occasion I must have hit new topic instead of reply and got an error saying I had not entered the topic name, and this morning I was presented with white screen on pressing the submit button.

In both cases I hit the back button, and all that I had posted was gone. On some boards I have been on, pressing the back button brings you back to what you have written, but not here. This is annoying especially when you have spent ages composing a post, for it to vanish like that.

Can this be investigated?

In the mean time the only work around is to copy every thing before hitting submit, but after we have agonised over a piece of text, we are prone to forget to do this.

[Red Moon]

I have notice this this seems to be a problem when I'm using internet explorer on windoze crash boxes. I will try it out some of the browsers and see what I can find out.

I know there is this isn't problem on my iMac and the Mac Mini when running Safari. I use the back button all the time while moderating the site and any form I have filled is there still filled in.

Watch this space and I will report back.

[lily.]

Originally posted by Sticks
.... I hit the back button, and all that I had posted was gone.

Firefox does that as well... FYI.

[James]

You could try selecting 'Work Offline' or whatever it's called on IE and then pressing the back button, but I don't know if that works with IE.

The Opera browser always keeps what you have typed in a form if you press the Back button, which is handy.

Sometimes I get pages failing to load on the site also, but not a white screen - it just doesn't breing up a page at all.

[Red Moon]

Mozilla 1.7for Sun Java™ Desktop System on the Sun Workstaion and SeaMonkey on the Mac, both of which are based on on Firefox type code has the same problem This would suggest from what Stropz said that this seems to be a cross platform type problem on firefox type browsers. Given it is a problem IE as well, the only solution is to by a Mac or use Opera.

[James]

It's probably a security feature of some browsers so that private information can't be stolen by pressing the back button on publicly-accessible computers, like in Internet cafes.

[Sticks]

For the record I use FireFox

[Red Moon]

Well you seem stuck Sticks, there is not much you can do other than write the post in a word processors and cut into the post box and post.

I do that sometimes when I'm writing a long post, seems easier than typing it all in the post box.

All I can think of is other the sites you use must use different software from our site. That is why it works there and not here.