Blogger and control+S

My previous post, Right-wing means to left-wing ends, wasn’t really a rant, though I suppose I could have written it in a more ranting style. However, while I was composing it something rant-worthy happened.

When I’m composing email messages, Microsoft Word documents, and other things, I frequently press control+S to save my work, so that if the application or the operating system crashes I won’t lose it. I expect I’m far from alone in doing that. But Blogger, the system I’ve been using to publish my blogs, takes control+S to mean “publish now”. So the post got published before I was finished, and I scrambled to finish it before anyone read it, in the meantime adding a note at the top to please come back later.

Unfortunate design decision. I wish they’d add an option to disable this “feature”.