[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #26988: Need a Button to Cancel/Revert Page/Post Edits in Progress

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#26988: Need a Button to Cancel/Revert Page/Post Edits in Progress
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 Reporter:  tomdryan     |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Editor       |     Version:  3.8
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  ux-feedback  |     Focuses:  ui
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Changes (by azaozz):

 * keywords:   => ux-feedback
 * focuses:   => ui
 * milestone:  Awaiting Review => Future Release


Comment:

 IMHO this makes sense. When editing, all changes are regularly autosaved.
 When editing a draft the actual draft post is overwritten in the DB. So we
 will need to keep the initial content of the editor on page load and add a
 button to restore it.

 > Ideally when you try to navigate away from a page with edits in
 progress, you would get a dialog box with the "Publish" menu...

 This may be nice to have but harder (or even impossible) to do in all
 browsers. This dialog is triggered on `beforeunload` which is a "special"
 event. The browsers handle it differently: some would accept a text string
 and show it, others would only show a standard modal. Can try to get it
 working.

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