Perspectives

I have found many applications ( couple of them from Google) doing auto-save. This is amazing and a very thoughtful move towards better usability. But, though I dont seem to remember where, I was once searching for a “save” button and did not find it. And I realised the site was auto-saving my work and I didnt need to save anything specifically.

Maybe due to legacy, many of us have gotten used to actions like “edit” , and “save”. I feel one can actually design a site (and probably an application too) without requiring these. The only concern is, will it actually confuse the users more.

Thinking on those lines, I came up with this small little text box to give the user the assurance that his work is infact saved and he doesnt need to do anything extra. Go ahead! Type in a few characters and see it for yourself. I already know that one cannot click and go back to any part of the typed text and I dont have a solution for that yet. Do you think this is too flashy? Too many things moving? Or is it good ?

Update: Original idea was to paste the javascript here. But blogger is screwing the shit out of me. I dont seem to be able to do that!