Opened 14 months ago

Last modified 14 months ago

#20317 new enhancement

Delete auto-draft using window.onbeforeunload

Reported by: scribu Owned by:
Priority: low Milestone: Awaiting Review
Component: General Version:
Severity: normal Keywords: 2nd-opinion
Cc:

Description

When a user goes to post-new.php, a new auto-draft post is created.

Old auto-drafts are garbage-collected: #19663

To lessen the need for GC, we could send an AJAX request to delete the auto-draft immediately when the user navigates away from the page (but not when he presses the Submit button).

Change History (2)

comment:1   scribu — 14 months ago

  • Keywords 2nd-opinion added

The only problem I see would be when a user presses the Back button and then presses Forward again. Since the screen is loaded from memory instead of doing a new request, they would end up with an invalid post ID.

comment:2   scribu — 14 months ago

  • Summary changed from Delete auto-draft on unload to Delete auto-draft using window.onbeforeunload
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