In addition to fixing the sorting as other people have mentioned here, it would be great if you made the return and tab keys choose the topmost completion.
Redesigning the country selector
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#22Why is Antarctica on the list?
They probably used the ISO list.
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#23While this has a nice UI, it suffers from a ranking system that fails to weight prefixes correctly. For those of us in Canada, typing "ca" should probably rank countries that start with the "ca" prefix first, followed by countries that have a word that starts with "ca", finally followed by countries that just happen to contain "ca". I don't see much use in showing "United States" as the first match for a user who has…
indeed, still doesn't beat typing 'c' 3 times.
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#24I 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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#25Could you retrieve the country from the IP address to set the default?
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#26Whilst some country endonyms appear to work (Deutchland, Hrvatska, Suomi), non-latin endonyms (日本,Россия) fail, some even when romanised. This isn't an easy thing to solve when many countries have multiple de facto or de jure languages.
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#27Well, I don't think this "works". We are conditioned to think that lists are sorted in alphabetical order. When I key in first few letters of a country, I expect to jump to that country's name directly. But with this redesign, I ended up typing more letters to "fine tune" auto-complete's suggestion!
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#28A different approach I've tried before is to perform a lookup on the visitor's IP address, and then to auto-select the country that we think they might be from. If we get it wrong, they can always select another country the usual way.
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#29I 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.
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#30While this has a nice UI, it suffers from a ranking system that fails to weight prefixes correctly. For those of us in Canada, typing "ca" should probably rank countries that start with the "ca" prefix first, followed by countries that have a word that starts with "ca", finally followed by countries that just happen to contain "ca". I don't see much use in showing "United States" as the first match for a user who has…
Perhaps adding a geo-ip look up to help weight the results would make this better? None the less this is a huge improvement then a drop-down with every known country.