From: Geoff on 10 Apr 2010 02:53 On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 19:10:35 +0100, Dr J R Stockton <reply1013(a)merlyn.demon.co.uk> wrote: >In comp.lang.javascript message <0r2cr5teakgfvrun3fbecetjg57icembe0(a)4ax. >com>, Fri, 2 Apr 2010 16:21:33, Geoff <geoff(a)invalid.invalid> posted: > >>http://www.micro-active.com/a-wm2/a-q-student-wm2.htm > >Even if you intend only to print that out or otherwise send it to the >clients, it would IMHO be well to include, perhaps separated from the >Questionnaire by a Rule, such reference items as a link to other parts >of the site, a date, a name, a means of offering suggestions. > >If you put year, month. and day in that order, you can adjust the length >of the month before readers get to that; and it would be prettier if all >were of the same width (I'm looking with FF 3.0.19). But, IMHO, people >can enter DoB faster as YYYY-MM-DD than with three drop-downs, and >validation is easy enough onBlur or otherwise. Given DoB and date, do >you need to ask Age? > >Select Months should use Jan-Dec or 1-12, not 0-11. > >To me, Age of diagnosis means "How long diagnosed?", Others may take it >as meaning "Age at diagnosis?". > >It might be useful to ask *which" spoken language is preferred, and >whether English will be satisfactory. > >If the form is filled in on the Web, can a Google Translate version be >used? Could you tell? Does it matter? Dr J. Thanks for the suggestions - delay in answering due to being away for a few days. Cheers Geoff |