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God I hate country drop-downs, especially ones that don't have search functionality, double hate them on mobile. Yep, a normal drop-down will let me move down t
by EdwardDiego 7y ago
God I hate country drop-downs, especially ones that don't have search functionality, double hate them on mobile. Yep, a normal drop-down will let me move down the options by pressing a key - I'm a Kiwi, so N for New Zealand, but that just moves me to Namibia, then I've got to carefully scroll to locate my country in between Nevis and Nicaragua.
What adds insult to injury is that Nevis isn't even a country, it's part of the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis.
- grenoire 7y agoOne thin that people miss for dropdowns is that you can actually type N..E..W.. and it will select New Zealand. Most browsers implement some sort of combo counter for it, such that the entry resets after a while too. I do agree that search boxes are better in general, and especially so for things that are not standardised such as country or airport 3-letter codes. But it's not the end of the world, even for date inputs you can just type 1984 and it'll select it for you. EDIT: It does not change the fact that mobile dropdown implementations are horrendous.
- EdwardDiego 7y ago> One thin that people miss for dropdowns is that you can actually type N..E..W.. and it will select New Zealand I need to find those, because I keep getting the ones that go Namibia > East Timor > Wake Island when I try that.
- OisinMoran 7y agoHave you tried typing N multiple times? My go to method is typing I six times to get me to Ireland and it usually works.
- Normal_gaussian 7y agoA default select works with combinations using the latest Firefox and Chrome - see https://jsfiddle.net/0kcbnfd2/ https://jsfiddle.net/0kcbnfd2/ It could be a case of custom controls being poorly implemented.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoIt's why I always recommend against non-native controls by default, whether on the web or desktop/mobile - even if you're particularly observant about your platform (and most devs aren't), there's probably still a bunch of little things like these that you'll miss and won't implement, and that people actually use daily.
- yellowapple 7y agoAnd not only that, but unless you're observant about literally every platform on which your app will run, you are bound to break something, whether subtly or majorly.
- icebraining 7y agoI thought it wasn't working, but apparently on FF you have to do it really fast. Take a second between key presses and it'll just revert to the old behaviour. Talk about being shitty to people with poorer motor control or who need to hunt and peck.
- EdwardDiego 7y agoNow that's how it always should've worked.
- progval 7y agoWhat OS do you use? Linux apps do what your parent comment describes, and from memory, Windows apps do what you describe.
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- mrunkel 7y agoMy special pet peeve is when the country list has been translated, but uses the sorting order of the english names. So much find searching for Deutschland under G. Seems to happen quite a bit.
- Cenk 7y agoMine is the country search box that Google uses in some places, where typing G brings up all countries that include the letter G, but in alphabetical order. Meaning “Afghanistan“ is on top, so I type “Ge“, which results in “Algeria“ being first. It’s so infuriating and makes no sense at all. Why would someone looking for Algeria search for Ge? Who on earth thought this is how people searched for their country anywhere? Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/QBqZdRml.png https://i.imgur.com/QBqZdRml.png
- dsego 7y agoOh, also experienced this on some sites, where you can see they plugged in translation to come after the sql queries are done, so the 'sort by' happens before the strings get replaced.
- mmerlin 7y agohaha I habitually enter Australia as B with 3 up arrows on desktop.
- duckqlz 7y agoYou can just mash N 5 times... (6 if there is a Nevis although I feel like that’s some weird hold out of colonialism that is specific to kiwi sites and I cannot find an example of a drop down containing it)
- koonsolo 7y agoI hate language drop-downs more, because I never know if the language will be in English "Dutch" or Dutch "Nederlands".
- misnome 7y agoIt's always terrible. If nothing else, am I in "Britain", "England", "Great Britain", "United Kingdom", "The United Kingdom" or some obscure different variant, sometimes the entry is at the top of the list, sometimes sorted, sometimes random. Every list seems somehow different.
- ASalazarMX 7y agoTo be fair, that confusing amalgamation was your own historical doing.