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		codedokode on Aug 20, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It is time to unlink the “Backspace” – Browser Bac... Good decision. But there are other ways to lose text, for example hitting Ctrl + R instead of Ctrl + T. I am not sure if web standards allow to restore text in this case.

colejohnson66 on Aug 20, 2016 [–]

I haven't looked, but according to the Chrome devs, because of the way the browser is built, saving the entire state of the DOM, JS, etc. is currently impossible.

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