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Absolutely — which is I would recommend providing multi-line edit boxes for addresses. That way you can enter your address any way you see fit. You really know
by jwr 17y ago
Absolutely — which is I would recommend providing multi-line edit boxes for addresses.
That way you can enter your address any way you see fit. You really know best how to address mail so that it gets to you, why would I want to pretend I know better?
- josefresco 17y agoYeah giving an end-user a free-form open box to enter their address as they see fit is a GREAT idea. Let me know how that works out for you.
- vanschelven 17y agoIt works very well for me. Provided the goal of the address field is to copy/paste it verbatim to an envelope - if you want to actually understand the different parts of the address this might be counterproductive.
- cookiecaper 17y agoA lot of people use fields such as state and zip code for demographic data collection. A free form textbox makes that more difficult.
- ubernostrum 17y agoSo you have a strong AI doing natural-language parsing to figure out from that freeform address whether you need to charge sales tax/VAT? If you're doing business across state/province or national borders, getting that structured address data (and getting it right) can be awfully important.
- pavel_lishin 17y agoSeems like the easiest solution would be for web developers to show the address in their country's format, if their customer is from their country, and to show a textarea box for anyone else.