Could someone in the Rails developer community please create a webmail application that periodically saves what I’m writing?
I have this habit of spending a painstakingly long time writing emails and by the time I’m ready to send it, my session times out and I pretty much lose all of my eloquent and thoughtful prose. I know, I know, I should be frequently saving it as draft, but my brain doesn’t work that way and imagine I’m not alone in this. And hey, I’ve used a few webmail accounts in my day and it’s clearly an area that needs improvement.
Look, I figure with the whole Ajax and XMLHttpRequest business, this should really be a done deal.
What I’m after is the simplicity and usefulness of Basecamp, with an autosave feature that backs up what I’m writing every 2-3 minutes.
I mean come on, that shouldn’t be so hard, should it?