Tab metaphor violated by Write Post

[elharo]

If I'm writing a post, to start working on a new post I have to (or at least I can) click on the "Write Post" tab. This starts me off on a new post. This violates the tab metaphor. Clicking the *current* tab should not change anything. ONly clicking an inactive tab.

Possibly the tab of the post I'm editing should be labelled with the title of the post or "Untitled" and a sepaarte tab be used for Write New Post. or maybe these shoudln't be tabs at all. I'm not sure about that. But I am sure that clicking the current tab should have no effect.

The same issue probably arises for Write Page.

[davidhouse]

I'd call invalid, you lose information on any page by clicking the same tab again. Example, change some options without clicking 'submit', then click on the current tab. Your changes are lost.

[skeltoac]

I think he has a good point.

[davidhouse]

To be honest, autosave would make this obsolete anyway, wouldn't it?

[wantmoore]

I'm not so sure that elharo was concerned with data loss as much as with with proper-UI behavior. However, if that's the case, with TinyMCE enabled, clicking the "Write Post" tab while writing a post gives you the "The changes you have made will be lost..." so data loss isn't an issue there. I personally wouldn't mind seeing that same warning popup when the rich-editor is disabled.

[Nazgul]

No traction in over a year, so closing as wontfix.

Feel free to reopen if you have patches/suggestions/...