Missing "cancel" button when editing Wiki pages

[khorben]

Description

When editing or creating wiki pages, there is no "Cancel" button helping the user navigate back to the original wiki page, or to the list of wiki pages available, respectively. (See https://try.gitea.io/khorben/test-for-wiki/wiki?action=_new)

Alternatively, Gitea could navigate back into the user's history. On the positive side, nowadays most browsers recognise when information was input but not saved yet, and warn the user before possibly losing this information. However, this would require JavaScript (unless a fallback behaviour is implemented) and break PLA (Principle of Least Astonishment) since it would remove the page edition page from the history, without the user actually interacting with the history buttons ("Back" and "Forward").

Note that this improvement to the User Interface/User eXperience may also apply to new issues. (See https://try.gitea.io/khorben/test-for-wiki/issues/new)

Screenshots

Gitea Version

1.16.9

Can you reproduce the bug on the Gitea demo site?

Yes

Operating System

NetBSD 9.3_STABLE (GENERIC) pkgsrc-2022Q4 (from source, system service)

Browser Version

Safari 16.3

[yardenshoham]

I don't see a reason for a "Cancel" button when you could just navigate away
References:

• Delete cancel button in repo creation page #21381
• Remove useless "Cancel" buttons #21872

[khorben]

I don't see a reason for a "Cancel" button when you could just navigate away

There is no way to go back to the Wiki page currently being edited, except for navigating through the whole Wiki to that page again.

[yardenshoham]

Can you illustrate with a video/gif?

[wxiaoguang]

I agree with the author.

Think about the case:

1. Go to wiki list page
2. Edit a page
3. Change some thing (but not save)
4. Now you want to navigate back to the preview page, if you click the "back" button on browser toolbar, you will see an annoying "leave confirm" dialog.

And another case:

1. Go to wiki list page
2. Edit a page in new window
3. You can't navigate back because the new window doesn't have navigation history.

The "cancel" button sometimes is more friendly and intuitive for such page.

[aschrijver]

Thanks for the heads-up to this issue @wxiaoguang .. I reported the same request in: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/705

[wxiaoguang]

Thanks for the heads-up to this issue @wxiaoguang .. I reported the same request in: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/705

Thank you for your report, but their fix doesn't seem right, violates the UI design (#28261 (comment)) .... actually it is a quite simple fix, and will be included in #29603