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...

Asko P. Yes, in that I need to know what is the first and the last name.

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.

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?

Martijn You've had to deal with them for a long time. You just never did The W3 article I linked was a real eye opener for me, even though I already knew about some of the issues.