Thomas,

Cutting through the supercilious tone, I have to admit that you've provided some well-intentioned feedback...along with some not-so-useful stuff...but I'll see if I can keep the difference in mind and focus on the positives.

The form isn't dependent on JavaScript, but rather, "boosted" by it. That is, there's a fallback in plain non-scripted HTML that ensures that a window gets popped up even if script is turned off; but when scripting is working, it creates and sizes the form window. The tall aspect ratio is designed to be comfortable (you write on paper in portrait orientation, right?), but from your feedback I can see that I need to make it landscape mode for very small screens.

Your views on scripting are the opposite of the views and practices of professionals who actually have to work with it--sounds like you're more a kibbitzer on the sidelines. For the record, the BBS software is only partly based on script--a lot of it is compiled code.

"Learn FORTH. "
Been there, done that, way back in the mid 70s. Forth is cool in many ways, and reverse-Polish has its strengths (did you know that PostScript is a dialect of Forth?), but it never caught on and there's not much support for it. I have to choose a language in which I can be productive, even if it isn't the theoretically-best or even the language I enjoy most.

I recommend simplicity. Design your forms with the minimum amount of scripting possible,

So far so good, but...

and skip the detection altogether, and it will work on the largest number of machines, operating systems and screens available.

Nope, doesn't work that way in the real world, the variance between browsers and the other factors are so severe that you either do the work to adjust the pages to categories of configurations, or you have to settle for the lowest-common denominator, as defined by Nagivator 4.7. Blecch. I'd be ashamed of any site I designed to such a low standard.

If I thought there were any open minded sensitive new age guys around here, besides Raoul, I would post here.

Oh there are, you could add E'telekeli, and, outside the guys, there's Mary Anne; and a handful of people who are liberal, if not so "sensitive and New Age", like Buck. They're wise enough to be civil, and to depend on reason rather than ranting and insults, knowing that they're in the minority. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar--it's how you say it that gets so much flack, not so much what you say.

--Robert