- From: Jonathan Baron <baron@psych.upenn.edu>
- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 15:44:21 -0500
- To: htmlforms@damowmow.com
- Cc: www-archive@w3.org
This idea will be wonderful for people who do social science research on the internet, like me. I am already pretty far into JavaScript (and less far into PhP), but if this had been available when I started I might never have had to learn it. (But, on the other hand, maybe it was good that I did.) One suggestion - although I don't know how hard it would be to implement - is that you extend the repetition model just a bit. Suppose I want to do a questionnaire with many items, one per screen. I could trick your current model by using the add and remove elements of the repetition model. You could make this easier with a combination of the two called "replace". If "replace" could then go through a list - or, better still, a list with its order randomized - then someone could present a questionnaire with one question per screen, or with questions composed of a small number of elements in different combinations (such as a conjoint analysis). Probably the researcher would still have to resort to some other method such as JavaScript or PhP, but not always. Your new system would be especially helpful for students just getting started doing web research. Jon -- Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
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