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Re:Show HN: garlic.js - don't let your users lose their form... by benschwarz on Saturday November 10, 2012 @06:11PM (#4768098)
IE8 supports both local and sessionStorage.

Which leads me to an aside — Why did you choose localStorage over sessionStorage?

For those who don't know — local/session are the same, only session will be cleared when the browser is closed.

My browser already auto completes form data… so I'm not sure I'd need it between sessions.

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Re:Show HN: garlic.js - don't let your users lose their form... by mh- on Saturday November 10, 2012 @06:39PM (#4768156)
what about when the browser crashes?
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Re:Show HN: garlic.js - don't let your users lose their form... by benschwarz on Saturday November 10, 2012 @06:49PM (#4768187)
Sure, if you think thats a valid use case to build for. I don't.
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Re:Show HN: garlic.js - don't let your users lose their form... by jonknee on Sunday November 11, 2012 @09:02AM (#4769502)
Why not? This is a plug-in aimed to help in the event something happened with the browser window. Besides accidently closing it there aren't many other scenarios where this plug-in would be useful.
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Re:Show HN: garlic.js - don't let your users lose their form... by mh- on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @03:27AM (#4782505)
well, if you use a modern browser it's an unfortunate reality, regardless of how you or I think it wrong
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