On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:00:15 +0200, Charles McCathieNevile
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree with all the arguments against speccing this, but also this
smells much more like a browser feature to me. I think a much more
realistic
approach would be for browser vendors to offer a setting to try
The idea of a control for countries was considered. However, it was
rejected because I couldn't get agreement from UAs to implement it. They
cited many of the reasons given in this thread, and some more, such as
being worried about being sued (like Microsoft was when Windows 95 shipped
with a
Sander Tekelenburg wrote:
A good implementation would
- know how to handle different spellings/synonyms (like US/USA, UK/England,
Holland/The Netherlands/Nederland, etc.)
- make proper use of the OS' language/location settings, if available, for
its initial setting, but allow the user to
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 18:44:26 +0200, Sander Tekelenburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree with all the arguments against speccing this, but also this
smells
much more like a browser feature to me. I think a much more realistic
approach would be for browser vendors to offer a setting to try
At 17:54 +0100 UTC, on 2006-08-24, James Graham wrote:
Sander Tekelenburg wrote:
A good implementation would
[...]
A much simpler implementation would simply work like existing form autofill,
matching values the values that the user has supplied to other country
inputs in
the past without
There are times I have to select in which country I live in.
Wouldn't a input type=country widget be useful here?
I couldn't find one on the web forms 2.0 spec, but something in that
line is already there, then I'm sorry, and you can ignore this mail.
Regards,
Martijn
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:44:37 +0700, Martijn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
There are times I have to select in which country I live in.
Wouldn't a input type=country widget be useful here?
I couldn't find one on the web forms 2.0 spec, but something in that
line is already there, then I'm sorry,
Alexey Feldgendler wrote:
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:44:37 +0700, Martijn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
There are times I have to select in which country I live in.
Wouldn't a input type=country widget be useful here?
I couldn't find one on the web forms 2.0 spec, but something in that
line is already
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:51:25 +0700, James Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are times I have to select in which country I live in.
Wouldn't a input type=country widget be useful here?
I couldn't find one on the web forms 2.0 spec, but something in that
line is already there, then I'm sorry,
Alexey Feldgendler wrote:
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:51:25 +0700, James Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are times I have to select in which country I live in.
Wouldn't a input type=country widget be useful here?
I couldn't find one on the web forms 2.0 spec, but something in that
line is
On 8/23/06, Martijn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8/23/06, Arve Bersvendsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:44:37 +0200, Martijn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
There are times I have to select in which country I live in.
Wouldn't a input type=country widget be useful here?
I
David Håsäther wrote:
But what if you use a browser with an old list, and your contry isn't
listed. Or are you proposing that browsers download a list every time?
Many modern browsers already periodically check for updates. Such lists
could be downloaded like any other update, as required.
On 8/23/06, Martijn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8/23/06, David Håsäther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, the browser should be able to keep up with the current list of
countries, shouldn't it? It's not like it is something that is
changing every minute.
But what if you use a browser with
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:24:52 +0700, David Håsäther [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
But what if you use a browser with an old list, and your contry isn't
listed. Or are you proposing that browsers download a list every time?
That could happen nowadays also, that a country isn't listed in the
On 8/23/06, Stewart Brodie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But what if you use a browser with an old list, and your contry isn't
listed. Or are you proposing that browsers download a list every time?
That could happen nowadays also, that a country isn't listed in the select
control. Indeed, I
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:36:44 +0200, Martijn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
You can have a select list and an input control at the same time, not?
See Lachlan Hunt's suggestion elsewhere in this thread, he uses:
input type=text name=country list=country-list
select name=country-list
On Aug 23, 2006, at 5:08 PM, Dean Edwards wrote:
On 23/08/06, Arve Bersvendsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:02:24 +0200, Martijn
...
I'm sure there is an official list out there (United Nations?), with
all the countries in the world.
What happens when a web developer
Martijn wrote:
On 8/23/06, David Håsäther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But what if you use a browser with an old list, and your contry isn't
listed. Or are you proposing that browsers download a list every time?
That could happen nowadays also, that a country isn't listed in the
select control.
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