I learned a valuable lesson today; When you are doing things in Safari on iOS, that require forms to be submitted (such as installing WordPress via Fantastico), when you are finished, CLOSE THE BROWSING SESSION.

I left the page with my password that appears when the process is complete open so I could copy and paste it elsewhere later. Then, when later rolled around, and I had slept and awoken my iPad and done many other things, Safari decided that instead of simply showing me the static page that had already been downloaded, it would resubmit the previous data and redownload the page.

This caused Fantastico to reinstall WordPress for me. Not good.

Most of the work I had done on the new site was gone, the most important of which was the first post and page I had written earlier. Very dissapointing to say the least.

I imagine this problem could extend to things like shopping sites, where you might accidentally order your product twice, or blog comments, where you might post them twice.

All in all, it pays to be careful.