So we took it upon ourselves to redesign the country selector. Sorry, you failed terribly. Feel free to try again.
Your comment is rude and offers no illumination.
Redesigning the country selector
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Re: Redesigning the country selector
#122I want someone to take this alternative values approach to the occupation selector. They seem to vary just enough that you have to read the full list to find the one that fits best.
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Until you live at an address not in most people's postcode database. If you're lucky, you get to enter your address in manually. If you're unlucky, you're up for a phone call or total rejection - a few times I've had to collect parcels from neighbours.
I had that experience recently; being told on the phone to a utility company "Sorry, but that address does not exist." to which I replied "I'm sure it does because I'm standing in it right now."
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#124Why is Antarctica on the list?
Some people currently reside there.
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#125A minor improvement suggestion: countries can now start with their proper article like "The Philippines" and "The Netherlands".
The article often gets omitted in drop down menus so people can find it if they search by alphabet (and advanced users can press the first character to jump to it quickly). With this plugin that would no longer be needed.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think that's making it too hard. Where is this information coming from? How do you update it? Instead, just order the matches like so: 1. Everything that matches at the first word 2. Everything that matches at the start of some word 3. Everything that matches at a non-start position within a word Granted, in this scheme Cameroon will still show up before Canada, but you don't have to look anywhere near as hard to f…
This is a good suggestion - I believe prefix match should weigh more than partial infix match. As for "too complicated" - I am not suggesting to extract GDP or population data in Javascript. But in static HTML on server side you may add additional "weight" attribute to each option, the way alternative spellings are added (look at the HTML source). And then you may manage these weights externally.
I believe prefix match should weigh more than infix match... except for countries that start with an article (The Philippines, The Netherlands) where infix match works better. The Netherlands is now number 11 on the list after typing "Ne".
Re: Redesigning the country selector
#127I want someone to take this alternative values approach to the occupation selector. They seem to vary just enough that you have to read the full list to find the one that fits best.
Unfortunately there's no universally accepted pre-defined list of occupations which are common knowledge to enough people to make that happen.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
Until you live at an address not in most people's postcode database. If you're lucky, you get to enter your address in manually. If you're unlucky, you're up for a phone call or total rejection - a few times I've had to collect parcels from neighbours.
I had that experience recently; being told on the phone to a utility company "Sorry, but that address does not exist." to which I replied "I'm sure it does because I'm standing in it right now."
Rather than trying to convince them, make it into a Data Protection issue. If a company stores personal information on you, and you tell them it's wrong, then they legally have to correct it. So just tell them (in writing) that your address is X, Y, Z and if they don't change it, then they are breaking the law.
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#129My main complaint about old country pickers and this one is non-prioritization of countries in the list. Yes, I understand that this may be a sensitive issue, but how much likely your customer is going to be from Canada than from Cameroon. Or if I start typing 'CA' in this selector, I get American Samoa and Antarctica before Canada! Let alone my old acquaintances Cambodia and Cameroon. Same for Russia - you get Aruba…
when I enter russ it shows me Brunei Darussalam first. I guess it's politics! ;)
Re: Redesigning the country selector
#130I have to ask. Is it common for anyone to type their country starting with characters inside of the word? I.e. instead of typing "can" for canada, would you type "ada" or something similarly fuzzy? I personally type "can", and if Canada is not the first result I consider it's usability inferior to a standard drop-down.
"Amer" for "United States of America"
He said inside the _word_, which I take extends to be "inside one of the words".
You wouldn't start typing "ca" if you wanted the US, so it's not very useful to include it.