- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 05:21:17 -0800
- To: Chaals from Yandex <chaals@yandex-team.ru>
- Cc: WHAT Working Group Mailing List <whatwg@whatwg.org>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Kevin Marks <kevinmarks@gmail.com>, Dan Beam <dbeam@chromium.org>
On 24 Feb 2014 05:17, "Charles McCathie Nevile" <chaals@yandex-team.ru> wrote: > > On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 05:05:06 +0100, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > >> On Fri, 21 Feb 2014, Kevin Marks wrote: >>> >>> On 21 Feb 2014 17:03, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: >>> > > Those names come from vcard - if adding a new one, consider how to >>> > > model it in vcard too. Note that UK addresses can have this too - eg >>> > > 3 high street, Kenton, Harrow, Middlesex, UK >>> > >>> > That's actually a bogus UK address. I'm not sure exactly which town >>> > you meant that to be in, but official UK addresses never have more >>> > than two "region" levels, and usually only one (the "post town"). The >>> > only time they have two is when the post town has two streets with the >>> > same name. >>> >>> The real address, where I grew up, was: >>> 2 Melbury Road, Kenton, Harrow, Middlesex, HA3 9RA >> >> >> Today, the address of that building is: >> >> 2 Melbury Rd >> Harrow >> HA3 9RA >> >> >>> Damn humans, not following specs. Actually UK addresses have a huge >>> amount of leeway, as they are routed by postcode in the main (though I >>> did receive a postcard addressed to "Kevin, Sidney, Cambridge" once). >> >> >> The post office will deal with all kinds of stuff, sure. But Web forms >> only have to accept the formal address format, which in the UK only ever >> has a street, a locality (sometimes), a post town, and a post code. > > > That depends on whether you want to force your customers to think like the Post Office, or whether you prefer to be responsive to your customers. Speaking without data, I suspect that nervousness at not being able to put *what someone thinks* is their address translates fairly readily into a certain amount of failure to proceed with a transaction. > > Providing specification purity over the concerns of both users and developers trying to use the Web to successfully interact with them seems like a pretty basic mistake to me. Who is using the data? Just post offices? Or taxi drivers, pizza delivery bikers, pedestrians? Dan > cheers > > Chaals > > -- > Charles McCathie Nevile - Consultant (web standards) CTO Office, Yandex > chaals@yandex-team.ru Find more at http://yandex.com
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