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Redesigning the country selector

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Re: Redesigning the country selector

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Post by courtewing »

rapind wrote: post #29

I 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.

It may not be common, but I don't think it is an unreasonable thing to expect. Think of a country such as the Democratic Republic of Congo -- I'm not entirely certain, but I'd imagine it is common for someone to simply start typing "Congo" while still expecting the result to be available.

This example may not be ideal since this country selection has both "Congo" and "Congo, Democratic Republic of" in its data set, but the principle can probably be applied elsewhere.

Re: Redesigning the country selector

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Post by kablamo »

As a vimperator user and command line person this is awesome. But obviously as a tablet or mobile phone user this would be not good.

I think this could be easily fixed by having the drop down menu pop up when you click in the input field (before you have typed anything).

Re: Redesigning the country selector

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Post by andrewvc »

kablamo wrote: post #32

As a vimperator user and command line person this is awesome. But obviously as a tablet or mobile phone user this would be not good. I think this could be easily fixed by having the drop down menu pop up when you click in the input field (before you have typed anything).

I'm on my Android handset, and this thing doesn't work at all for me.

Re: Redesigning the country selector

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Post by sixtofour »

When typing "united ...", the United States shows up in the list.

When typing "america ..." the United States does not show up in the list.

Yet "United States of America" is the, or one of the official/common names of the United States, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_states and https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

I like the interface, but it has a few quirks as pointed out in the other comments, and the database behind it could probably use some additions.

Re: Redesigning the country selector

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Post by cool-RR »

jgrahamc wrote: post #5

I 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.

Yep, will work 99% of the time, and in the other 1% we can afford to modify it ourselves.

Re: Redesigning the country selector

#38

Post by xthlc »

byoung2 wrote: post #17

Why is Antarctica on the list?

Not to mention Bouvet Island -- an uninhabited volcano in the Antarctic covered by glaciers. If you try to land there, the Norwegian navy will fire on you as it's a "nature preserve".

It's OK though -- most country selectors include BV, since they lazily use ISO3166-1 as a canonical list of countries when in fact it just defines country codes.

When you embark on a redesign, it's usually a good idea to start by revisiting your content.

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