I partially agree with Rony. Is the target audience primarily from one country? I am American, and I am accustomed to our 10-digit string, only using '1' when calling from a land-line. I am willing to bet that most Americans aren't even aware that the '1' is our international calling index. Furthermore, I have a lot of foreign friends, and they have trouble understanding the format of their own number system. Most often, there are zeros thrown in that are used some times and other times not. They obviously know how to call people within their own country, but never seem to know how they would call from somewhere else, like the US.
Therefore, I would either go for one text-field, or a system that guided the user. The latter approach would certainly require more effort and expertise, but if you got it right, would significantly decrease the likelihood for mistakes and misunderstanding. Ironically, I just came across a split phone-number form within the last few days. It was broken down into three parts (area code 3 digits 4 digits). I found it very annoying, primarily because I am *accustomed* to tabbing between fields, but these three form fields automatically moved the caret, which completely screwed me up. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=30411 ________________________________________________________________ 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
