Why not just a simple old text box with ajax auto-lookup that is robust enough to: 1. offer a country name in at least 5 different languages; 2. predict the most likely country name and heavily weight that suggestion first based on iplookup.
I did it with the From and To Airport/City look-up on kayak.com ( http://www.kayak.com) - just extend it with a bigger controlled vocabulary of country names/alternate spellings. Long-ass drop-downs are so Spice Girls. ~ will "Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Will Evans | User Experience Architect tel: +1.617.281.1281 | [email protected] aim: semanticwill gtalk: semanticwill twitter: semanticwill skype: semanticwill --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Jim Drew <[email protected]> wrote: > Please take it one step further than just putting it in both places. When > there are multiple localized names for the country, put them all in. > > I can't tell you his many times I've tried to use keypresses to navigate a > country popup, only to fond it has USA but not United States, or vice versa. > > -- Jim > Via my iPhone > > > On Dec 31, 2008, at 4:18 AM, Joshua Porter <[email protected]> wrote: > > So for example if the person was from the Netherlands, the Netherlands >> was placed on the top. Every user still looked all the way down the >> list and then spent time in puzzlement in why their country was not >> listed under N. It took a long time for them to find the Netherlands >> at the top of the list... >> >> When we were designing the UIE checkout billing page, where you >> select your country, we ended up putting the country name in both >> places. Some folks would grab it from the top, saving them time, >> while other folks would grab it from the alpha listing. There is no >> reason why the country can't be listed twice, and we found it >> helpful to do so. >> >> >> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . >> Posted from the new ixda.org >> http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=36720 >> >> >> ________________________________________________________________ >> 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 >> > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ________________________________________________________________ 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
