I tried their demo. It didn’t let me input my postal code because it’s 7 characters. It would have been even worse if the field only accepted numbers like the author implies it should. I obviously didn’t expect it to auto fill, but the fact that I can’t even input my postal code at all is the same annoyance I’ve had with almost every American service. The fact that there’s even a field for “country” in the demo is a joke. If you’re going to make your form for the US only, why bother including a country field? If it is international, country goes first, I don’t know why that’s even a concession at the end of the article, it should be the foundation.
Also the suggestion to auto fill the country based on IP has problems but I would go out on a limb and say most people are not travelling or using a VPN so I’ll let this slide.
I tried their demo. It didn’t let me input my postal code because it’s 7 characters. It would have been even worse if the field only accepted numbers like the author implies it should. I obviously didn’t expect it to auto fill, but the fact that I can’t even input my postal code at all is the same annoyance I’ve had with almost every American service. The fact that there’s even a field for “country” in the demo is a joke. If you’re going to make your form for the US only, why bother including a country field? If it is international, country goes first, I don’t know why that’s even a concession at the end of the article, it should be the foundation.
Also the suggestion to auto fill the country based on IP has problems but I would go out on a limb and say most people are not travelling or using a VPN so I’ll let this slide.