Warn people about abandoning mobile topic and comment drafts
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	• ppelberg
	Jun 3 2022, 8:40 PM

Description

This task involves the work with showing people a warning of some kind when they are at risk of losing / discarding the comments and topics they are drafting with mobile DiscussionTools

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OS: iOS 15.5
Browser: Safari

Reproduction Steps

Using the mobile site, visit a talk page on a wiki where the mobile Reply and New Topic Tools are available. E.g. https://ht.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diskisyon_Itilizat%C3%A8:PPelberg_(WMF) .
Tap the Ajouter une discussion to open the New Topic Tool or a [ répondre ] link to open the Reply Tool
Type some text into the tool you opened in "2."
Tap a link that will take you to another page. E.g. the username of someone who has commented on the page.

Actual

❗️You are taken, without interruption, to the URL of the page linked within the link you tapped in "4."

Expected

✅ Upon tapping the link in "4." a message of some sort appears ask you to confirm that you'd like to navigate away from the page and lose the comment/topic you started drafting in "3."

Done

"Expected" behavior is implemented

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Status	Assigned	Task
Open	None	T276497 Scale DiscussionTools to all projects
Open	None	T251207 [Epic] Scale DiscussionTools to all Wikipedias
Resolved	None	T278588 Mobile talk page improvements
Resolved	• ppelberg	T282638 [RELEASE TICKET] Offer Mobile Reply and New Discussion Tools at Partner Wikis
Declined	None	T309897 Warn people about abandoning mobile topic and comment drafts

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• ppelberg created this task.Jun 3 2022, 8:40 PM

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• ppelberg moved this task from Backlog to Triaged on the DiscussionTools board.Jun 3 2022, 8:40 PM

• ppelberg moved this task from Incoming to Upcoming on the Editing-team (Kanban Board) board.

• ppelberg added a parent task: T282638: [RELEASE TICKET] Offer Mobile Reply and New Discussion Tools at Partner Wikis.

@Esanders: in what – if any – way(s) is this ticket related to T294463?

VPuffetMichel edited projects, added Editing-team; removed Editing-team (Kanban Board).Jun 6 2022, 7:20 PM

VPuffetMichel moved this task from Kanban Board to Upcoming on the Editing-team board.

• ppelberg edited projects, added Editing-team (Kanban Board); removed Editing-team.Jun 6 2022, 10:40 PM

• ppelberg added a project: Goal.Jun 10 2022, 11:16 PM

• ppelberg moved this task from Upcoming to Ready to Be Worked On on the Editing-team (Kanban Board) board.

I can't reproduce this issue, I get a system dialog telling me that I will lose changed.

The mechanism we use here (onbeforeunload) has apparently always been disabled in iOS Safari: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4127621/is-there-any-way-to-use-window-onbeforeunload-on-mobile-safari-for-ios-devices

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/beforeunload_event#browser_compatibility

"Safari on iOS" is the only one with no "activation" mechanism. Presumably Apple thinks this feature is abused too much on mobile.

when they are at risk of losing / discarding the comments and topics they are drafting

While not ideal, the auto-save feature should prevent them from losing their draft if they immediately navigate back.

Per above, this is not feasible to implement on iOS.

(On the bright side, when you navigate away on iOS Safari and then go back to the previous page, it will usually be shown instantly – the browser itself will restore it, rather than our autosave mechanism. Given this, I think it's not worth trying to find a way around it.)

• ppelberg closed this task as Declined.Jul 7 2022, 12:38 AM

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