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Which doesn't solve the problem at all. Unless you live in the US. There's a startup niche for 'user friendly address entry in forms'.
by FuzzyDunlop 15y ago
Which doesn't solve the problem at all. Unless you live in the US.
There's a startup niche for 'user friendly address entry in forms'.
- tedunangst 15y agoCompanies in other countries are free to pick a different default; I just happen to primarily deal with US companies who themselves market to a US customer base. #1 rule for dropdowns should be to pick a sensible default. If I'm buying a plane ticket from JFK to SFO, and Afghanistan is your best guess for my billing address, you absolutely suck at guessing.
- jff 15y agoThere is surely something to be said for making it a little easier for people in the world's largest single-nation economy to give you money.
- mooism2 15y agoThere is surely even more to be said for making it a little easier for people anywhere in the world to give you money.
- toyg 15y agoDamn, you're so right. This sort of data gathering is boring and nobody wants (or has time) to spend time trying to refine it; frameworks try to automate/simplify this sort of development task as much as possible, but that's not their core mission, and we can't all use the same language/framework anyway. A simple service that works well and packs lots of intelligence (properly auto-defaulting address info, handling shipping/billing/company details, including VAT, automatically linking social networks where possible, etc) must be worth something.