Re: [Debconf-discuss] "Country of residence" drop list.
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 08:31:50PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> On 10841 March 1977, Jamil Ahmed wrote:
> > "Bangladesh" is not listed in the "Address > Country of residence" drop list.
> Thanks, fixed.
> And for all here:
> The deal with that list is that I could list ~240 countries. And much
> more languages for the "Spoken Language" selection. But - that would
> mean that every single call to a persons site would require to load
> around 500 lines of extra stuff, the select boxes would be damn huge,
> etc.
> I want to avoid that, so we made a smaller list of Countries to
> show. Obviously we missed some, sorry. Simply tell us (here per mail or
> in #debconf-team on irc.debian.org) and we fix it.
Well, whether you waste your own time deleting countries from this list and
re-adding them later is your affair, but why is it warranted to waste the
time of someone to tell you that their country is missing when you had a
perfectly good list in the first place that they could have used on the
website? I've never heard anyone complain that there were too many
countries in a select box, and heck, my country starts with 'U' -- this is
why good browsers allow alphabetic shortcuts in select lists...
Hoping he'll be able to register for DebConf even from Uzbekistan,
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