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 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.
>
> Which countries we have in the world, and how they are named is a rather
> volatile property. Countries change name depending on the current rule(r),
> and as not-too-distant European history taught us, countries break up.
> The definition of what is a country varies depending on who you ask, so
> such a form control is hard to accomplish.
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 an old list, and your contry isn't
listed. Or are you proposing that browsers download a list every time?
--
David Håsäther
