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On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Philip Newton wrote: > Why not provide a free-form text field that lets people enter as many > rows as they need[*], in whatever form the loval post office expects? Because, as noted, free-form text doesn't fit snugly into predefined database fields. The correct approach, it seems, is two forms: the default (for USian businesses) may assume an American style address, but it has to provide a prominent link to a free-form form for non-US addresses. (Hell, if they were really clever, they could use a radio button and CSS trickery to put the two forms in the same spot on the same page, and only display the one that's the visitor finds appropriate...) But seeing as most US businesses assume that they're only doing business in the US (which isn't completely unreasonable, as it is a huge country and it doesn't always occur to people that there might be customers beyond the mysterious borders), this will probably rarely happen... -- Chris DeversThere's stuff above here
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