Monday, May 5th, 2008
Overlay-Style Form Summary
Ok, it’s time for a very geek post about a particular aspect of web-usability: Form Submission Summary.
Before I get into it, here’s a brief rundown of what it is and a link to the demo, in case you don’t want to read the post and just want to get the goods… which is what I would do if I were in your shoes:
- It’s a form with some cool Prototype functions that actually overlays a summary of the form information in a “light-window” without actually submitting the information. I used PHP, but you can use any programming language.
- It’s cross-browser compatible with IE6, IE7, Opera 9, Safari 1, and Firefox 2… maybe more, I didn’t test other browsers.
- I didn’t do much styling. You can do that stuff yourself if you want to.
- The Demo for the Summary Window can be found here.
- The source code and images (there are only 3 images) can be found here (35kb zip file).
Now it’s time to get into why it exists… (more…)