Ask for confirmation when saving changes with an empty comment string
It is good practice to provide a to-the-point comment string with each change. However, it is also easy to forget this, especially when making a change quickly.
I suggest to popup a confirmation window when saving changes with an empty comment string. The user can that either OK this, or Cancel the Save operation and provide a comment string (and appropriately check Trivial change).
Alternatively, the popup could provide a text field to enter a comment string, and a checkbox for marking trivial changes.
I do like comments optional, otherwise if you correct sometimes your own typos of a previous posting you will get crazy always entering such a string. I do agree that on some pages this may be useful too but than it should be a kind of page control, e.g. controlled by a pragma #edit with comment only. I dislike a popup window I believe an open editor with a message in the message box is quite enough. -- ReimarBauer 2006-04-17 13:14:54
-EFARTOOMANYOPTIONS. Reject. -- JohannesBerg 2008-03-18 00:10:45