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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses by izacus on Sunday January 18, 2015 @09:10AM (#8907545)
At least it helps if you don't block on empty fields then - I keep getting annoyed when sites demand I enter "state/province" for international shipping when my country doesn't have that concept.

Or demand that I enter 6-digit postal code when we only use 4. Or not being able to handle non-ASCII chars. And things like that - helping people is fine and useful, but blocking a user because you set up assumptions valid only for your locality is a huge annoyance.

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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses by ghshephard on Sunday January 18, 2015 @01:05PM (#8908209)
If your country doesn't have the concept of separate city/country, (Singapore doesn't) - you can just enter "Singapore, Singapore, Singapore"

Or UK, London, London.

Totally agree that systems should not presume to known (often incorrectly) the format/content of such fields, outside of areas where they can. (I.E. Validating Postal Codes in regions like Canada, United States, etc..)

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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses by masklinn on Sunday January 18, 2015 @10:54AM (#8907787)
> I keep getting annoyed when sites demand I enter "state/province" for international shipping when my country doesn't have that concept.

And uses a select box of US states, so even if your country did have such a concept (and used it for mail, which may not be the case) you couldn't give it.

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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses by smackfu on Monday January 19, 2015 @08:49AM (#8911887)
If you have a select box of US states and you ship internationally, clearly no one put any thought into the form.
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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses by wingerlang on Sunday January 18, 2015 @01:50PM (#8908353)
You could manually set it via the "inspect element" I guess? If you realllly must set something.
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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses by kuschku on Sunday January 18, 2015 @05:45PM (#8909284)
Yup, I’ve done that far too often, I even have a bookmark to a small script that just replaces the next input box I click on with a freeform text input.
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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses by TeMPOraL on Monday January 19, 2015 @09:24AM (#8912007)
I used this once to submit a form without agreeing to let my personal data be "processed".
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