- From: Jürg Lehni <lists@scratchdisk.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 09:27:38 +0100
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: WHAT Working Group Mailing List <whatwg@whatwg.org>, Kevin Marks <kevinmarks@gmail.com>, Dan Beam <dbeam@chromium.org>
I think it is dangerous to make any kind of assumption about valid postal addresses. Here's a great list of all kinds of exceptions to rules that programmers tend to believe to be true: (Don't we love rules?) http://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses/ Jürg On Feb 22, 2014, at 05:05 , 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. > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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