On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 05:05:06 +0100, Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch> wrote:
On Fri, 21 Feb 2014, Kevin Marks wrote:
On 21 Feb 2014 17:03, "Ian Hickson" <i...@hixie.ch> wrote:
> > Those names come from vcard - if adding a new one, consider how to
> > model it in vcard too. Note that UK addresses can have this too - eg
> > 3 high street, Kenton, Harrow, Middlesex, UK
>
> That's actually a bogus UK address. I'm not sure exactly which town
> you meant that to be in, but official UK addresses never have more
> than two "region" levels, and usually only one (the "post town"). The
> only time they have two is when the post town has two streets with the
> same name.
The real address, where I grew up, was:
2 Melbury Road, Kenton, Harrow, Middlesex, HA3 9RA
Today, the address of that building is:
2 Melbury Rd
Harrow
HA3 9RA
Damn humans, not following specs. Actually UK addresses have a huge
amount of leeway, as they are routed by postcode in the main (though I
did receive a postcard addressed to "Kevin, Sidney, Cambridge" once).
The post office will deal with all kinds of stuff, sure. But Web forms
only have to accept the formal address format, which in the UK only ever
has a street, a locality (sometimes), a post town, and a post code.
That depends on whether you want to force your customers to think like the
Post Office, or whether you prefer to be responsive to your customers.
Speaking without data, I suspect that nervousness at not being able to put
*what someone thinks* is their address translates fairly readily into a
certain amount of failure to proceed with a transaction.
Providing specification purity over the concerns of both users and
developers trying to use the Web to successfully interact with them seems
like a pretty basic mistake to me.
cheers
Chaals
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