Another reason to use Firefox (in Off-topic)

AdminQBVerifex March 9 2007 3:54 PM EST

Another developer of greasemonkey extensions decided he was tired of always losing his work when typing stuff into a textarea thing, so he wrote this little extension:
TextArea Backup
I think it's pretty cool, I'm using it right now even!

AdminQBVerifex March 9 2007 3:55 PM EST

Aww man, that is cool!

QBPit Spawn [Abyssal Specters] March 9 2007 4:01 PM EST

small compensation for all the reasons not to ;)

Karmic Mishap [Soup Ream] March 9 2007 4:04 PM EST

That's WILD awesome, 'Fex! I've always hated losing form data, and given up on some things when losing that info. Thanks a bunch!

AdminQBVerifex March 9 2007 4:34 PM EST

Pit your Anti-Firefox ways will be your undoing!

bartjan March 9 2007 5:26 PM EST

Jonathan inquired about wysiwyg html editors a (long) while ago. I guess the perfect one hasn't been found so far.
As an alternative, isn't it possible to cause GreaseMonkey to change this textarea into a wysiwyg widget?
I know, probably a lot of work; but perhaps someone else already has made something like this for another site?

Flamey March 9 2007 6:04 PM EST

WYSIWYG = What You See Is What You Get?

Is that using HTML but seeing the preview as you're typing?

bartjan March 9 2007 6:06 PM EST

It's like typing a text, highlighting it and then selecting B in the menu bar to make it bold.

Xenko March 9 2007 6:59 PM EST

That is an awesome script. Nice find!

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