Finally, no more pain. As of today, there is no reason why an email written in a webmail system, a well-researched forum entry or a page-long blog comment would vanish into electronic nirvana. LiveSaver is a small, self contained JavaScript drop in to any web-based application that uses HTML forms to receive user input. It uses a brute force attempt to save the user from unnecessary duplication of work, by storing a form's content in a cookie every time an input occurs. That is not, what cookies were meant for, nor is this an elegant solution, but it solves a real world problem – crashing browsers and randomly restarting computers.
LiveSaver was created during the development of Journalize It. Journalize It is a basically a web frontend to LaTeX. It allows to typeset journals and magazines professionally without the need for a typographical education. In the course of the development, we came up with the idea of LiveSaver. We didn't want to loose any data a user entered and with hacking for an hour or two, a basic prototype was built. The idea grew onto us and we imagined that it'd help a lot, if more web applications had such a mechanism. And because we were already using Sam Stephenson's prototype, an elegant plugin was the way to go. And here it is, BSD-style free:
and I set you up.