[thelist] international friendly form

[Ben Dyer]

But, there's really no way to have an effective form that's generic enough.
You could have a blank box for State/Province which covers everybody, but
then when culling through the data, it's almost impossible to sort easily:
some people will enter in "Texas", others will enter in "TX".  Others won't
read directions and might enter "Dallas, TX 75201" or whatever.  How do you
sort that data?  The drop-down simplifies things.

By doing it this way, you're accomodating everybody and making it easy (for
yourself or your client) to sort through the data for where you're from (at
least for an American/Canadian site, I would presume an Australian site
would do the reverse, a drop-down for New South Wales, etc. and a box for
other).

And, just so you know, I'm not trying to be an ugly American, I'm trying to
be as practical as possible.  This is about the best solution I can find.
If bandwidth ever got to a wonderful point (and I had all sorts of time),
I'd love to have a form where when you chose, say, Spain, it had a province
box containing Catalonia, Sevilla, etc.

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Ben Dyer
Senior Internet Developer
Imaginuity Interactive
http://www.imaginuity.com
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Brown, Robert
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 4:18 PM
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Subject: RE: [thelist] international friendly form


The problems with this is, Disney is giving precedence to two countries,
then Disney is saying all of you foreigners go use that bucket.
(why is 'its a small world' going through my head?)

The interface has to be consolidated, to not confuse, or give precedence







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-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Dyer [mailto:ben at imaginuity.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 1:53 PM
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Subject: RE: [thelist] international friendly form


I liked the way Go.com (through Disney) broke down their form.

https://register.go.com/disney/register

They have a section for Americans (State and Zip Code), Canadians (Province
and Postal Code) and another for International (with text boxes for
generic).

I've implemented the same system on several forms I've worked with lately.
Prevents a lot of problems.  Canadians are so touchy about that sort of
thing - especially when their postal codes are rejected through JavaScript.
;)

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Ben Dyer
Senior Internet Developer
Imaginuity Interactive
http://www.imaginuity.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
[mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Michael McGlynn
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 3:25 PM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] international friendly form


I have a form for User's contact information that must accomodate many
countries and be context sensitive, i.e. State for U.S., Province for
Canada. Has anyone done it well or seen it done well?

michael mcglynn
interface designer
www.blueripple.com





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