Re: [SAGE] web form handling software

[John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>]

>>>>> "Alexios" == Alexios Zavras <zvr@pobox.com> writes:

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

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

I didn't work for me when running Galeon 1.3.18 under Fedora Core 3.  

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

This is also doesn't address the issue of people designing data
acquisition forms, which have more issues than just "non-techies need
to be able to create forms easily" since the data validation issues
are even more important.

Remember: Gi-go.  Garbage in - garbage out.

John