I'd like to know the answer to this as well. It's not 'normal' behavior for a forum, and I think some users may find it to feel invasive. Until they hit post, they should be able to feel confident that my server hasn't taken their words from them imo.

There isn't any way to disable drafts. I've actually never heard that type of concern before.

I'm pretty sure you can just remove autosave.js. If you want to do this, but not change the core, make a plugin with the following methods:

public function PostController_Render_Before($Sender) {
   $this->RemoveJsFile('autosave.js');
}

public function DiscussionController_Render_Before($Sender) {
   $this->RemoveJsFile('autosave.js');
}

@Todd, @Lykaon; I've got it working after a lot of messing around (being new to Vanilla 2) using the following code;

<?php if (!defined('APPLICATION')) exit();
/*
GNU GPL bit here.
*/

$PluginInfo['DisableAutosave'] = array(
'Name' => 'Disable Autosave',
'Description' => "Stops auto-saving of Draft posts.",
'Version' => '1.0',
'Author' => 'Mikhael'
);

function PostController_Render_Before($Sender) {
$this->RemoveJsFile('autosave.js');
}

function DiscussionController_Render_Before($Sender) {
$this->RemoveJsFile('autosave.js');
}
It seems to work ok, but I'm concerned that it's overriding hiding core functionality. I tried setting up a class to extend Garden functions, but it turned into a bit of a nightmare. Any advice gratefully received.

@Lykaon; What bothers me as an ex programmer is that the Class Reference section of the developer docs doesn't appear to exist yet, so I have no idea how to add these correctly. I've tried creating a class, but haven't fully grasped Vanilla 2's structure, and just end up with error after error. The problem here is that these function declarations may be 'hiding' the originally declared functions. (I'm not yet sure how PHP works in that respect as my pro work was all OOP/RAD in Windows). Hiding functions is a Bad Thing.

@Todd; Any idea why the dev docs say, "An indent is 3 spaces, never a tab"? That adds 3 times the characters to every indent, which is a lot of extra junk when it's all a added up. And the Minify plugin causes some pages to display naked and nasty, so that's no help it seems...

Thanks @Lincoln. I've uploaded it as a plugin in case anyone else finds it useful.

@tonipg39; It's just the code Todd gave above wrapped in a plugin for easy installation, and is available in the addons section. It hasn't been reviewed yet, but is perfectly safe.

@tonipg39 Are you Vanilla 2.0? What version of IE are you on?

Interesting @tonipg39. I use Chrome, but just tested that again in IE8 (without 'Compatibility mode') and it works in terms of being able to post a comment. What's strange is that the draft auto-save is disabled in Chrome, but is still working on the same site in IE8, although the autosave.js file shouldn't be active. Any ideas @Todd?

Ctrl + F5 to force-refresh the page with the js changes (or manually clear your cache).

I used Piriform's free CCleaner to scrape out everything, and IE8 still persists in acting as though Disable Autosave isn't working (in Vanilla 2.0.3). Odd. It's definitely working as it should in Google Chrome.

@Lykaon; What browser are you using?

@Lykaon; Strange! Perhaps something is misbehaving for me rather than you? Care to check it at one of my sites?

And in this forum I can write a post with IE 8 without problems :D

Thank you very much Mikhael:

And you use 2.0 version too?
I think that post problems start at the first moment. I don't know if the cause is an addon.

Here works very well both