Currently, front end editing works in a popup modal window. That is nice enough for uses where the site is being maintained by site owners in the front end, but when you want to create a user submission site it becomes problematic. What if they don't have javascript turned on? Besides that, it adds to the complexity of the user experience, to deal with a popup window. When you submit the new page now, it just does it in the background leaving the submission window open without even showing the content in the page. This doesn't make sense for a user submission process, I'm sure most users will think the content wasn't posted and will give up or post again, and again.
Without hacking the views and templates, I don't think it can be done at the moment. And doing this will ruin chances at upgrading.
I hope this feature will be placed in future designs.
