From: Geoff on
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