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Building Better Country Selects

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Re: Building Better Country Selects

#11
I like the idea of smarter filtering. But I wonder how a modal interacts with automatic form filling.

I don't care for the chaotically ordered list of countries after the suggested country.

I think a better version would be nonmodal, but with a modal button to expose more powerful browsing.

I also question why we have to fill out so many forms in the first place. We should have better ways by now to get frequently used bundles of info to counterparties.

Re: Building Better Country Selects

#12
interesting idea. Although some countries change their names (sometimes in a complete way) depending on their native language. Should it be accounted for it as well, in case I need to search it via text? like, if the page is in english, it should be to match Germany for "Germany" and also "Deutschland" just in case, right?

Re: Building Better Country Selects

#13
Yes this is a pain in the ass for many many Koreans.

Your eyes have to scan for:

- South Korea - Korea, South - Republic of Korea - Korea, Republic of

And then you have - North Korea - Korea, North - Democratic People's Republic of Korea - Korea, Democratic People's Republic of

Re: Building Better Country Selects

#14

> A full country list inside a native ` ` has several structural limitations: > No filtering. Users cannot narrow the list by typing But you can use an ` ` instead and add a ` `[0] to it with the list of countries and you will be able to filter them by typing. Granted, it still has no full support (namely, firefox), but still that's much better than a ` ` with no filtering ability whatsoever. Not sure why this is not…

At least in Firefox and Chrome on MacOS, you can search dropdown menus by typing.

Re: Building Better Country Selects

#15
This completely ignores those of us who fill forms by tabbing through fields to stay on our keyboard.

TAB into the country field, type 'Uni', down-arrow a couple times to United States. TAB to the next field. Simple.

Having the suggested country at the top for mouse-bound folks helps, but a standard select dropdown can also pre-select a default choice (via the 'selected' attribute).

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