There was some talk on the list about the format of a survey being potentially
problematic with regard to input, i.e. check boxes vs. radio buttons, and ease
of internationalization while maintaining the same format.  It may be hard to
say whether the group should take suggestions from the community on creating
simple surveys in HTML, as this usually leads to bikeshed discussions, but I
feel obligated to chime in when things break in standards-compliant browsers.

With regard to the recently posted survey, I could not help but notice that
there was no place to enter an e-mail address for a chance at winning a copy
of Bruce Montague's new book.  Looking back, the same problem presents itself
if you were interested in specifying something for "Other BSD" (I assumed this
was a result of fancy code that would magically open a text field in the event
that I had selected said check box, upon first glance).  I could be wrong, but
the culprit appears to be each line containing the following:

input type="text" size="0"

Due to hardware limitations, my selection of browsers does not leave a lot of
room for experimentation.  This problem is noticeable in W3M and Links.  When
I dug up some rotting remnants of lynx, it turned out to be surprisingly more
resilient in ignoring 0-length specifications on text fields.

I'm no HTML guru, so I am not sure whether having such odd text fields is good
practice or not, but HTML that does not render in popular (text) browsers can
probably be written better.  At this point, it may be too late to change this
survey, but in the future, more testing for compatibility would be desirable.

Regards,
Dan Bernard

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