Autosave while typing title creates permalink too soon

[xibe]

Autosave is a great help to prevent loosing one's post, but I just stumbled on a possible defect: autosave happened while I was typing my post's title. I was not yet done with typing, so while my fully-typed was of the form "aaaa bbbb ccc ddddd eee ffff", the permalink generated by the autosave was just "aaaa bbbb ccc".

This is not a big issue, since I can edit the permalink whenever I want, but this is still a hindrance.

I think autosave should be disabled while the focus is on the title.

[bi0xid]

I think it works this way now. I have tried and it waits until I focus another place to autosave and create the permalink.

Maybe you are having some trouble with javascript? Any plugin?

[azaozz]

Not sure if we should explicitly disable autosave while the title field has focus. Perhaps we can disable it for 3 sec on each keyup there or something similar.

[caesarsgrunt]

Autosave should be disabled until there is content in the post body.

[dd32]

Autosave should be disabled until there is content in the post body.

Some people like to enter a title, upload content, then write a post. It all comes down to individual taste.

IMO, a autosave to get a post ID should occur pretty early, but the permalink should not be created until the title has not had focus for ~5 seconds?

Something in the back of my head says that the slug is not set in stone at that point however and may change? (Or am i completely wrong?)

[caesarsgrunt]

Alright; how about doing it the first time any one of the following occurs :

• The title looses focus and is not blank.

• The title has not had focus for 1 minute and there is content in the post body.

• There is more than X characters in the post body.

• The Upload dialog is opened.

[caesarsgrunt]

And, if the post is autosaved while the title is blank, then the first time the title is changed the slug should be changed to match.

[caesarsgrunt]

Can you autosave without creating a permalink at all?

That would be best; autosave anyway but don't create a permalink until the first time the title looses focus and is not blank.

[solarissmoke]

The permalink that is generated on the autosave of a new post isn't permanent - it will get refreshed once you click "save draft" or "publish" and if the title has changed then so will the permalink. So I don't see any issue here?

[markjaquith]

solarissmoke is correct. The permalink isn't "set" until you publish, or until you manually set it yourself. We can live with this small quirk. Your next autosave will rectify it.