kate_nepveu: sleeping cat carved in brown wood (Default)
Kate ([personal profile] kate_nepveu) wrote in [site community profile] dw_suggestions2011-10-09 11:00 pm

preview suggestions post in new window for consistency

Title:
preview suggestions post in new window for consistency

Area:
suggestions

Summary:
Previewing posts to one's journal is done in a new tab/window, but previewing suggestions posts is not. This can lead to unfortunate muscle-memory effects where a user automatically closes a previewed suggestions post, thinking that she would thereby get back to the tab where she's editing her suggestion, but instead loses all her work. (*cough* *cough*) The behavior of "preview" should be consistent across the site.

Description:
If the new posting window lets people chose whether to open previews in a new tab or not (I can't remember), then that behavior would ideally carry over to dw-suggestions, though I'm guessing that would require more of a complicated overhaul of the dw-suggestions interface than just changing the effect of the "preview & spellcheck" button.

Poll #8411 preview suggestions post in new window for consistency
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 53


This suggestion:

View Answers

Should be implemented as-is.
46 (86.8%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
7 (13.2%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)