I appreciate the careful thought going into the development of future LimeSurveys.

The prevalence of 800x600 screen resolution seems to be around 7 - 8%. Can one afford to inconvenience 1 in every 12 potential survey takers?

Of course the actual useful browser window size is potentially quite a bit smaller than the nominal screen resolution. Ideally I would hope that the layout would be flexible enough that the minimum window width only begins to matter when it becomes smaller than the width essential for the widest question type. If my ideal of flexibility is impossible, at least devising the survey layout for 800x600 would allow comfortable use at the most common resolution.

I don't know if it's just the convenience of using the blueprint template or functional necessity that sets the 960px minimum width, but it requires a dedicated, maximised browser window on minimum 1024x768 screen. It won't allow frames for survey-hosting sites or applications. For example, I would want to provide surveys on the institution's web sites, leaving the default navigation bars, logos, etc. intact - and I'm sure that's a very common approach. I doubt the Joomla integration that some people have been working so hard on would work too well either. And users would have to close any browser side panels. Or have I misunderstood, and provision is made in the 960px for such things?

Regards.

Hi

Given the scope of our work , we've decided to design for a min res of 1024. BluePrint CSS framework actually uses a 960px (i think) area for the page, a 24-unit grid system (40px wide columns). 800x600 is fine for the question area but it is not wide enough to accomModate the entire interface needs of LS.

If a designer want's to work on a 800x600 wide layout, they should be able to do this fairly easily with adjustments to one CSS file (or even just adding an additional css file and overriding the blueprint layout file). In addition, for most surveys, the only part that will be cut off is the column of tips/help stuff (per question) that appear to the right of the form questions. the questions (form elements) themselves should fit in 800x600 area (note the tips are not actually in a real css column - they are inside the fieldset/div for each question so they serialize properly but visually, they appear to be in a column).

Many surveys wont even have help boxes anyways. Screen sizes are only getting bigger and 800x600 is rare. Mobile devices are the exception but those require a different approach on a number of levels beyond just the column layouts. We hope to get to that in the future as well.

Please send data on the Joomla integration; that is news to me. Right now, the surveys we are designing are also not exportable (e.g. you cant just drop a script tag onto an external website off the LS install domain and take the survey). But thats on the roadmap.

THis is how I understand all of this to date; Juhan may have other comments.

B

Hi,

Sorry about the long delay. I was reminded of this discussion when I encountered the Blueprint Grid CSS Generator, a tool which allows one to customise the number of columns and column, margin, and page widths of the default Blueprint framework. But perhaps you're already aware of it?

I haven't used Joomla, but the Limesurvey extension for it, JooSurvey, was discussed in the fora. mainly here and a few other mentions. It's apparently based on an older LimeSurvey version and it's not clear to me whether the developer will continue with it.

Regards.

I think we should try to contact the joosurvey developer(s) and ask them if they want to join the LS2.0 dev team. It would be great to have a joomla extension based on LS2.0. Joomla is very widespread and by doing so we could extends the LS community.

Hello Mazi,

I have talked to them before and offered that.
They did not even bother. Also they expressed that they only developed it for their own purpose and it's very unlikely that it will be developed further.

Also they are barring access to the download by mandatory registration.

They had 1200 downloads in almost 5 months, so they have 600 installations at maximum. We have this number of downloads in 3-4 days. Another reason why i think the effort of integration isn't worth it as the number of potentials users is small compared to the effort integrating it.

So, nothing to see here, please move along.

Thanks for the information about that. Thought joosurvey was more widespread because there have been some questions in the forum.

So no LS2.0 for joosurvey users.

brianthedrummer wrote:

If there are problems with the UI in screen readers, we should create accessible alternatives for those specific area. Having some blind users test some of our stuff such as a sample survey from our developers using DOJO would be a good starting point.
Hey Brian,
can you please get in contact with me when there is a first LS2 survey available for testing?! I think the one offered at the SVN (LS2 alpha) isn't suitable, is it?

I'll try to find someone to test as soon as there will be a complete survey (and UI) you consider worth testing available.

The Roadmap maintains weekly updates on LS2 progress in addition to features slated for the near future. Keep tabs on this schedule and you will gain an idea of when LS2 will be ready for testing.

design.limesurvey.org has been updated.

A few BIG changes coming in the next three weeks to the builder user interface (in terms of comps).

-Juhan