Last modified: 2014-08-21 22:18:56 UTC
Invoke VE from iOS Safari on tablet, Make changes to page in VE Open second tab, load another website, Switch back to tab with VE instance, page is reloaded, and changes are lost
This is "normal" behaviour from Safari, but we need to investigate if we can prevent (or at least discourage) it somehow.
Yep, I know this one might be difficult but it obviously makes doing references on mobile basically impossible. glad to see we're prioritizing this.
Unfortunately, on investigation, this is something that we can't avoid; it's the built-in behaviour of Safari that we have no control over, sadly. Marking as "WONTFIX" but it's more "CANTFIX".
This might not be able to resolved as the bug is written (stop safari from reloading) but the current experience for the user in unacceptable. We need a solution. possibly server side drafts or using localstorage on the device. Feel free to rewrite the bug, but we can't ignore this issue.
(In reply to Jared Zimmerman (WMF) from comment #4) > This might not be able to resolved as the bug is written (stop safari from > reloading) but the current experience for the user in unacceptable. We need > a solution. possibly server side drafts or using localstorage on the device. > Feel free to rewrite the bug, but we can't ignore this issue. Well, this is what Apple wants to happen. We already say to the browser "don't just close me". Apple has decided in its wisdom to ignore that. We can try to take steps to make it less-terrible, but the underlying issue can't be fixed except upstream…
"don't close me bro"
