And how would the average user find a previewed but not saved revision? Is that something only users in a role with access revisions could recover? - Kevin Reynen On 6/7/07, David Strauss <david@fourkitchens.com> wrote:
With clever use of revisions, we could eliminate the preview system entirely from the codebase.
Here's how it would work. If a user clicks Preview, it creates a new revision but does not mark it as the current revision. The preview seen is the new revision rendered. If a user clicks Save, it creates a new revision *and* marks it as the live one. Optionally, we could then delete the interim preview revisions.
Another advantage to this is that a user can work on a node, preview it, and have their work saved. If a user comes back and edits the node with unsaved previews, they can choose to work from the latest preview or the latest public revision.
I know Drupal 6 goes a long way to fixing previews, but this would eliminate all inconsistency.