the bubble floats the wrong way on my macbook... if I lift the left side, the bubble moves right ...

if i lift the track pad side, the bubble moves away from me ...

I have a twitter thinger on my blog that shows a search for my blog name...

both!

sadly people call you a pendant if you end every sentence with "to the best of my knowledge" and an egotist if you don't ...

I'd still say that the lack of undo and the lack of confirmation in that particular widget makes it a bad idea... although a "get me out of here" link may very well be in order...

the people-who-know-less-about-the-web-than-me seem to crop up a lot ... oh yeah, they're the ones paying me... so generally they get what they ask for even if it does mean i have to come back in a week and remove the "please lose my changes" button...

browsers don't save things by default. that's how they are.

the thing in the interface that tells you that you're looking at a browser is up to you... in my mind, the address at the top, starting with http:// is the part of the UI that says my changes will be thrown away...

this is kinda why i'm miffed that there is an explicit "throw my changes away" button, when that's the default behaviour

>"browsers don't save things by default."

// Depends on your browser.

when "submit form" and "save" are the same action, it doesn't depend on browser...

keeping it in cache/locally/whatever is not "saving".

sounds like a "Please throw away everything I just typed" button to me ...

Your replies have prompted me to rethink the logic. I'm going to add some rules to the "Clear" button:

1, Hide the button whilst no records have been clicked. 2, If a record has been clicked, clicking the button clears the form then hides itself.

Feedback appreciated.

It may be better to not hide the button, but to disable it.

Hiding buttons in response to application state confuses the user.

(Imagine the user searching the screen for the "Clear" button which he or she knows should be there ...)

an [x] button to get rid of the edit form - for don't save, or don't create (ideally with undo, but "are you sure" is good too)? maybe?

I appreciate useful feedback

i have taken to select-all-copy before submitting anything anywhere for just this reason!

I thought everyone started doing this back in 1997.

Opera did a good job of remembering what I typed in the box quite well, right up until people started adding boxes to the DOM willy-nilly!

There's actually an extension Persistent Text that does this https://addons.opera.com/addons/extensions/details/persisten...

i'm pretty sure your browser's edit boxes support some kind of undo command... one that will only reset the contents of that field, rather than the whole form ...

a commonly used ticketing system has them, as does a particular bank i know of ...

you'd be surprised to hear that i had a need to use both of them in the same day and they both got me with it...