On 8 Jan 2008, at 15:05, Pankaj Chawla wrote: > Hi Josh, > >> What fields do you present? For example, ZIP Codes are only >> applicable in >> the US...so why present it to the rest of the world? > > ZIP codes are applicable in almost all the countries in the world > though > they use slighlty different names (Like Pin Code in India). But since > ZIP code has become a fairly standard field in address input forms > most > people identify with it and enter their specific country based code. > One point to remember though is that the code length is different (US > I believe uses 5 digit number where as in India its 6 and I am sure > other > countries will have a different size). [snip]
Remember quite a few countries don't just have numbers in their codes (e.g. UK has letters and a space too), and other countries don't have postcodes everywhere or at all (e.g. Ireland only has 1/2 digit "zone" numbers in Dublin and Cork I think). International addressing is a PITA :-) Personally I tend to go for a) supplying the countries where most of your users live with something specific to them and as much validation as you can afford; and b) a "generic" international form for everybody else with fairly minimal validation. Adrian ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
