Post #1544752

2026-04-21 01:35 UTC

Browsers crash. Tabs close. Life happens. Here’s a web component that saves form progress so your users don’t have to start over from scratch. https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/never-lose-form-progress-again/

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@mwichary@mastodon.online 2026-04-21 14:06

@Aaron@front-end.social Hi, I love this work, but I think the second example feels like setting a bad precedent to me: name and email are boring, but they are known and easy to replicate. Losing a written message would mean actual data loss and frustration, and that’s the one that feels like it needs protection more than the others. Maybe something like password or credit card or captcha or a one-time code would be a better example for something not worth protecting?

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@Lee_Holmes@infosec.exchange 2026-04-21 16:40

@Aaron@front-end.social This is smart. Browsers should do this by default! I had discussions with one browser manufacturer at one time, and they were like "But the edge cases!" and it was clear that they didn't care about users enough.

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@paulbailey@mas.to 2026-04-21 19:54

@Aaron@front-end.social Nice!

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