I've seen problems similar to this before.  In my case it was usually low
memory  or resources on the user's machine.  One way to fix this is to make
the form multipage and pass the parameter from page to page via cookies or
CGI.  This would also improve download time.

Norman

----- Original Message -----
From: Ezra Freelove <esfreelo(at)valdosta.edu>
To: Hwg-Techniques <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 2:52 PM
Subject: Strange Form Quirkiness


> For anyone who is an HTML and/or forms guru,
>
> This is a strange problem. A professor here requested that we turn her
> really long survey into a web page. Now that the site is in production and
> getting responses, we are getting reports of people having problems. There
> might be 2 different symptoms... 1) no pull-down elements at all or 2)
> broken pull-down elements. I have not been able to duplicate this problem,
> so I really don't know for sure if one, both, or neither are accurate.
>
> The page was run through the W3C's validator, NetMechanic, and a slew of
> online validators/browser backward compatibility tests. None have reported
> anything that appeared significant except NetMechanic did not like one of
> the hidden input fields because of the single quotes inside the double
> quotes. Wasn't sure if I should take that as significant or not.
>
> Strangely people report the problem across 3 different browsers (Netscape
> 4.6, IE 4.01, and IE 5.5) all of which I have installed on computers here
to
> try and duplicate the problem unsuccessfully.
>
> Here is the URL. Again, the survey is really long (192 responses, 145KB)
>
> http://www.valdosta.edu/survey/2000election/survey_pre.html
>
> Thanks for any help you can give in debugging this.
>
> Ezra
>
> ----------
> Ezra Freelove
> Computer Systems Specialist, Assistant Webmaster
> Office of Information Technology
> Valdosta State University
> Valdosta, GA  USA  31698-0195
> esfreelo(at)valdosta.edu
> Desk 912-333-7315              Dept 912-333-5974
> Fax  912-245-4349                   ICQ 41079071
>
> http://www.valdosta.edu/~esfreelo/

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