garlic.js

This library solves a problem and solves it well. The local storage issue should be left up to other libraries who are designed to solve that gripe. :-)

I was thinking about this the other day and I thought "How is this not standard!?" Good job!

Huh, this is very nice. Congratulations!

I just hope everyone gets to use it. I added it to my "great to have" Javascript libraries list. Good work!

I think the desire for this kind of project is very reasonably based, and it looks like you have done great work on most of the implementation. I have one gripe with it, though.…

I disagree to a certain extent. I don't believe in catering to the possible 5% [1] market share that will not upgrade their browsers. Anything that strongly suggests people to…

It's not standard because people frequently do things like type a credit card number into a form on a public computer. Lots of potential for privacy breaches.

Should add an option for users to disable this (like remember me on login forms)... not good for public computers if you don't know the form you just filled in but didn't submit…

While convenient and technically fine, this can get creepy for users. “Wait, I didn't submit the form on purpose but the data has been saved?”

It would also be nice if the documentation mentioned that it requires jQuery.

Hmm, what does jQuery provide that is so essential that someone decides to add a dependency this big for something so simple? It seems that everything requires jQuery these days,…

I would suggest using userData [1] for IE 6 and 7. [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533007%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

If you want to support this on IE 6/7, just add a shim that uses userData behaviors for localStorage. Here's one: https://github.com/mattpowell/localstorageshim

i like it. workaround for older browser possible?

Should add an option for users to disable this (like remember me on login forms)... not good for public computers if you don't know the form you just filled in but didn't submit…

Is there a way to differentiate between data that's only saved using Garlic (local) vs data that's also been saved to the server? This could be a huge confusion for users if…

I agree with this. Outside of explicitly signaling to users that they have a saved 'draft' of the form, and having them click a button on the page to restore their filled out…

IE8 supports both local and sessionStorage. Which leads me to an aside — Why did you choose localStorage over sessionStorage? For those who don't know — local/session are the…

Why is this a website feature instead of a browser extension, where it would work for every site?

Don't want to be that guy, but what's different from http://simsalabim.github.com/sisyphus/?

Pretty cool - another very similar option that comes in the form of a jQuery plugin that I just noticed in the [new] section of HN.... https://github.com/simsalabim/sisyphus - It…

> don't let your users lose their form data This is a huge problem, and is the reason I've had Lazarus installed for a few years now.…

Form content recall is a native Chrome feature now.

Firefox seems to do this sometimes too. (e.g. I went backwards then forwards while typing this, and my text was retained.)