- From: Barry Johnson <barry@dynamic-info.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 12:37:21 -0600
- To: www-html@w3.org, rmenon@tisl.ukans.edu
P. Raghavan Menon wrote, >I was wondering if there are any ideas/plans to implement >grayed out/conditional forms. >What I was thinking of is something like this: > ><FORM METHOD=post ACTION="http://www.hal.com/sample"> ><P><input name="gender" type=radio value="male"> Male <P> > ><CONDITIONAL "gender"="male"> > We have a fine selection of ties for the well dressed man. > What kind would you be interested in ?<p> > <input name="tietype" type=checkbox value="flashy"> Look at me!<p> > <input name="tietype" type=checkbox value="subdued"> Subdued.<p> ></CONDITIONAL> I think this would be very useful. We have developed a few systems which need conditional branching and presently there are only two options: (1) Display all items, and instruct the user, e.g. "If you answered foo to question 3, skip questions 4-7" (2) Have multiple pages for a survey and keep track of users by authentication or Netscape cookies. The branching is then handled server-side. This option is preferable to (1) but requires additional transactions and server-side overhead, which is undesirable. I would be curious as to other ideas people may have. Client-side scripting could be used to set items disabled as things happened. --Barry -------------------------------------------------------------------- Barry Johnson (612) 593-5000 Dynamic Information Systems, LLC FAX: (612) 593-5081 5401 Gamble Drive, Suite 106 Minneapolis, MN 55416 barry@dynamic-info.com --------------------------------------------------------------------
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