Hello to the list, hello Jeff.
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Jeff White <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for all of the responses so far. Yohan, I'd be very interested in
> your multilingual country database - thanks for sharing.
Good default value [1] is your friend here.
IP-address provides information about the location of the one who is
filling the form [2]. You can fill the form with this information and
the guess will be probably true.
Of course, in case this value is wrong (proxy issues, etc...) a
drop-down list allows for manual selection, but my guess is that most
of your audience will not have to select it manually.
Yet, as usual, it depends really on your audience.
If the web form is targeted for the consumer market, the ip address
will be probably correct. If the form will be accessed by
multinational companies, the chances are the proxy for the Internet
connection will be in another country. Yet those cases are rare and
previous solution still holds.
my €.02
Gilles
[1] http://designinginterfaces.com/Good_Defaults
[2] http://www.geobytes.com/ipLocator.htm
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