Redesigning the country selector
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Redesigning the country selector
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Re: Redesigning the country selector
#2I like this. However, I'm wondering if including all the common and local names of a country would become too cumbersome during implementation over time.
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#3Nice one. Scrolling down the endless list of options in a form is pretty cumbersome. I like the fact that you can type in common abbreviations for countries as well ('de' for Germany, etc).
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#4Impressed to see 'England' become 'United Kingdom'. Not so impressed to see that 'Wales' wasn't similarly treated.
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#5I typed UK. The only option offered was Ukraine.
I'd actually much prefer a country selected that was based on geography with a Mac OS X dock-like magnification so I can choose my country easily.
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#6On a similar note, I've always found it kind of amusing/frustrating that forms in the US make you fill out city, state, and zip code, when in fact the zip code indicates a specific city and state. I realize that's a huge database of geolocation data to keep as part of the program, but I wonder if there could be some kind of lookup that goes on behind the scenes and fills in the city and state if the response is quick enough (and allows the user to fill it in manually if it doesn't).
Re: Redesigning the country selector
#7On a similar note, I've always found it kind of amusing/frustrating that forms in the US make you fill out city, state, and zip code, when in fact the zip code indicates a specific city and state. I realize that's a huge database of geolocation data to keep as part of the program, but I wonder if there could be some kind of lookup that goes on behind the scenes and fills in the city and state if the response is quick…
IPhoto computes city/state automatically from zip code.
Re: Redesigning the country selector
#8On a similar note, I've always found it kind of amusing/frustrating that forms in the US make you fill out city, state, and zip code, when in fact the zip code indicates a specific city and state. I realize that's a huge database of geolocation data to keep as part of the program, but I wonder if there could be some kind of lookup that goes on behind the scenes and fills in the city and state if the response is quick…
In the UK it's quite common for forms to ask you to type in your postcode and they then ask you to select your address. Because the postcode is very dense (your house number/postcode is unique), this makes address entry very easy.
Re: Redesigning the country selector
#9Impressed to see 'England' become 'United Kingdom'. Not so impressed to see that 'Wales' wasn't similarly treated.
I imagine these are the sorts of things that can be tuned quite easily, define more synonyms for each country etc.
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#10While it's better than traditional country selector, I think there are some possible improvements here. I started typing Ger (as in Germany), and first suggestion was Algeria - wouldn't it better to sort them by popularity/language version of my browser/ip geolocalization, instead of repeating old mistake of putting stuff in alphabetic order?