Hello guys;
DrupalCON in Brussel anyone from South East Asians coming?
It is true that even in Malaysia, the websites are down for several hours without warning, and the webhosts are too dumb to not warning owners beforehand (or sometimes they dont even realize the server is down)
I was thinking about the problem users face when using a CMS - not just Drupal - this is to improve Drupal usability for those not accustomed to `weak bandwith' or weak webhosting server connections
Whereas most of websites and E-Commerce are owned by small companies and people like us who pay for webhostings which a lot of times go down without warning, or suddenly the connection breaks due to webhosting problem (not broadband or dial-up fault)
And users sometimes have only some precious seconds (if lucky, minutes) to submit articles.
Also for bandwidth savings, since dial-ups are by minutes, and broadband has packages (4 hours for example).
And we as Drupal-powered sites would like to be friendly to the users (writers) and not making them mad and raging for losing their works.
I really think that if this sort of SIREN is available then Drupal makes more outstanding CMS
The proposal is for a kind of ALERT (Flashing siren) to users when they are writing a content
Many are accustomed to Yahoo emailing where they just type in whatever they have in mind, maybe long articles, and just click `Send email'