Re: [SAGE] web form handling software

[Alexios Zavras <zvr@pobox.com>]

John Stoffel wrote [edited]:
> Philip> 1. creation and adjustment of web based forms, by non-techies
[...]
> Philip> [it] has to be usable by true "non-techies", eg: web-gui.
[...]
> Unfortunately, writing a dynamic form to add/subtract fields
> dynacmically before the data is submitted is really hard.  Or you have
> to break it down into sub-forms, etc.  A pain.

One of the best such implementations I've seen
it's the Opera Show Generator -- where you do exactly that:
you fill a form (add/subtract fields, move them around, etc.).
All client-based.

Its result, btw, after "submit" is a HTML/CSS/Javascript-based presentation
that can be run in Opera (and, I think, recent Mozilla implementations).
And of course it can be just shown on the Web.

Saved a lot of our non-techies from Powerpoint bloat, actually.

Main link:
	http://my.opera.com/community/dev/operashow/
The generator:
	http://my.opera.com/community/dev/operashow/generator.html

-- zvr --
ps. mind you, I've never actually used the generator with Internet Explorer,
    so this particular implementation may not be the end-all solution...
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