Date   : Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:49:11 +0000
From   : afra@... (Phill Harvey-Smith)
Subject: New Retro Auction Website

Rick Murray wrote:
> Hehe, that's about as stupid as websites that ask you to enter what your 
> country is, and THEN insist upon a valid US zip code. And don't cheat 
> and enter 90210 like I did, as 90210 as nowhere in France is Santa 
> Monica Boulevard... <sigh>

Yeah my real bugbear is dumbass (usually on US company websites) web 
designers that don't seem to know how to use  drop down lists properly.

Ok fair enough, you are a US company and the majority of your customers 
will be from the US so pre-select that option, no probs so far. But then 
they list everyone else alphabetically and put the USA at the top !
It's not like HTML doen't have a way of dealing with this : <option 
value="USA" selected> and the others <option value="some other country">

It's either not being familliar with HTML, or just plain lazyness.

I'll get off my soapbox now :)

Cheers.

Phill.

-- 
Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric !

"You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge" -- Rush.