Subject Re: BETA testers needed to fill out a survey.
Author IBO
Paul,

Thanks for the feedback!

>I was confused about the licensing types. I am not an expert on open source
>and could not make an intelligent decision based on the information in the
>survey. Maybe include a very brief summary of what each is.

That's a great idea. What I was thinking is a little popup window when the
mouse flies over the text. I'll do something to cue the user that there is
popup help available.

Would someone step up and produce this for me? I'm not open source license
expert...

>Why all CAPS on the first page. Except on the zip field where I could enter
>small letters.

Habit. I've removed the caps.

>Also, if this is going to be an internet based survey, wouldn't it be
better
>to do it in HTML or JAVA? You will lose a lot of responses if it is
>necessary to download a program, extract and run it in order to fill out a
>survey.

Totally agreed! I just did it in the format I'm most familiar with. I am
working with someone else who is doing the web interface part of it... I
thought this would at least be a good start to show that there IS an IBDI
databasse and that we ARE gathering the opinions of the community ina format
that will make the information highly useful.

>BTW, was that app actually connecting to a remote database? If it was, it
>worked perfectly.

Yes, this is an example of how one could write an InterBase client
application and have it connect over the internet from anywhere... (except
through a stingy firewall...)

The database we are connecting to with this is located at:

interbase2000.org:d:\ibdb\IBDI.gdb

Thans again for the feedback!

Jason Wharton
CPS - Mesa AZ
http://www.ibobjects.com

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