Gmail and Saving via JavaScript
I noticied (and read online) that Google had put in scrolling on their maps via the mouse wheel. But I just stumbled across something new while using Gmail - if you are typing an email and hit crtl+s, the normal Microsoft save command for word docs, it will actually use AJAX to save the email into your drafts (works on both IE and firefox on windows, but you have to have focus on the text area for composing the email in order for it to work) . They had auto-save, but this is something I wasn’t aware of. I also tried it on firefox on Linux, but it didn’t do it. You may be wondering why I hit crtl+s? It was a habit I developed while working as a webmaster for a ski area. Not that often, but often enough, the power would go out and I would lose all my unsaved data on the computer. It only had to happen a couple of times before I developed a habit if saving all the time. Such is the price of working at a ski area and being able to get powder for lunch…