[Javascript] Alert user when leaving site - Simplified

[Mike Dougherty]

My boss wanted me to trap a user leaving uncommited data in a form.  "I don't want you to disable 
the BACK button, just usurp it"  -- I told him that was wrong for many reasons.  If a user leaves 
a page without hitting the submit button, they will learn that form submission won't work.  I made 
the request rediculous to the Nth degree by suggesting that next management will want us to trap 
the windows shutdown key via javascript and prevent the computer from being turned off - or 
possibly preventing power failures while our site is being viewed....

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:31:35 -0500
  "Conyers, Dwayne" <dwayne.conyers at hp.com> wrote:
> Triche Osborne wrote:
> 
>> If you like, you can add the onclick event only to outgoing links. 
> 
> What if a person leaves the site without clicking a link -- say through
> the nav bar or through a link on the browser toolbar or favorites?
> 
> Just curious.
> 
> 
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> Dwacon
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