Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses

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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