WordPress Editor — Display an "offline" message when the user attempts to save a post when they are offline

[1dr0]

What

I was wondering if there is a way to identify if the user is offline when they were saving their post as a draft, or during the autosave.

Why

I had a user who was working offline and noticed that their Editor was displaying "saving to the cloud" even though they are not connected to the Internet. They lost their work when they went online and nothing was eventually saved.

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How

Would something more descriptive like "Offline — Unable to save to the cloud" be useful for users who work on their editor when they are offline?

Ideally, autosaving to local storage when the user is offline might help too.

[zachspears]

I was unable to reproduce the initial issue, but I was able to save offline and get a saved confirmation. While it was distinct from the "cloud" save I do not think it was necessarily clear that it was an offline save. Some kind of clear "Offline Save" with an informational dialogue if clicked would be really useful to fully communicate offline saving for the user.