On 10 Jan 2008, at 04:38, Pankaj Chawla wrote: [snip] > This takes care of all the issues with salutation in name (User > decides what he wants to be addressed as) > and 5 generic lines for address will take in almost all the addresses > in the world. Also I am not sure why > address validation should be done by the website. In case a user is > entering the address and is expecting > correspondence at that address, he will make sure he enters it > correctly. Isnt that the way we add address > in all the paper forms we submit and the validation is left to the > user and
Two reasons that this may not always be the best solution, off the top of my head: * People do accidentally make mistakes on their address, and fix them with appropriate feedback. I have the logs from web apps to prove it! * We may want the data in a more structured way for other purposes than sending something in the post (e.g. I want to know that I've got a valid UK postcode in an address since I can use it to identify the physical location of that address) > I am sure no paper form goes > in with a wrong address unless the user purposefully wanted to enter a > wrong address. Go ask some folk who work in the post office. I'm sure that they'll agree that nobody mis-addresses or misdirects mail accidentally :-) Cheers, 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
