Asko P.
What do you guys think of this signup page design? asko.press/2016060...
Martijn
Do you really need two fields to ask for a name? w3.org/Internation...
Martijn
What if I only have one? Is "last" my family name or the name that is written last? Some more questions like that are put forward in the article I linked. I am a stickler for this as I have an easy, ASCII writable, European name and software still messes up capitalisation when they make me put my family name in a separate field.
Martijn
The second. Although try convincing software of that. I also expect my name to be sorted under "Ven", ignoring the "van der". Wikipedia will inform you on collation and capitalisation: en.wikipedia.org/w...
Mark Dain
Interesting... Thanks for the link, I can see how a lot of software would get this wrong, especially as it differs by region (Belgium sorts under Van but the Netherlands doesn't?). And then it's suppose to be Ven, Martijn van der? Christ this is complicated. It's times like this I think the W3C is so right; just have a field for name and let the user sort it out!
Asko P.
Having an O in my last/family name makes a lot of software also mess up and use O instead. I don't have a middle name, just first and last, but in case I use one input, how would I know how to split it up into a use case where I need to display "Hello, John!"?
Martijn
How would you know what part of a name to display for Mao Ze Dong? Or what if he enters Mao Ze Dong ? (Family name - generational name - given name, in that order, by the way.)
Mark Dain
Oh dear... It's bad enough trying to serve Europeans with van der in their names, now I have to deal with people who write the family name first?