I just experienced one of my least favorite occurrences while writing content on a web form. In a nutshell, I was writing a blog entry and then decided that I wanted to embed some URL links in it. It immediately brought to mind that Drupal uses filtered HTML by default, which then made me consider which tags are supported by default. Thinking a good review was in order, I clicked the 'More information...' link on the Create Content page. Okay, that review was nice. Now I click 'Back' in my browser to continue where I left off in my blog entry. Doh! My previously written text is gone! No!!!

In some ways, this is a privacy 'feature' but in other ways, it is the most annoying thing in the world. Depending on how long you were typing into that form prior to clicking on the link, it might cause you to lose a significant amount of work. All because you didn't have the foresight to save your data before clicking on what appeared to be a helpful link. Some help links open a new window, which would have avoided this problem.

While this problem can be worked around (always save an entry before clicking on ANYTHING), it would be better if the form data were cached and available when going 'back', which is the normal behavior for HTML web forms (not driven by a dynamically generated CMS like Drupal).

I suspect there's an easy way to fix this problem, either at the browser end (perhaps changing some cache settings) or at the server. At the moment, I don't think I care enough to do anything about it but it's nevertheless a problem that should be addressed.