[Gllug] OT: Police Web Site

[j.roberts]

On 03/02/2011 18:08, - Tethys wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Walter Stanish
> <walter.stanish at saffrondigital.com>  wrote:
>
>> One could also exclaim:
>>   "Postcodes are never displayed in cursive script!"
>>   "Every UK customer has a postcode!"
>>   "Not knowing your postcode is an edge case that is not worth
>>   considering in our interface design!"
>> ... etc.
>>
>> Each would be wrong.
>
> "Every customer will have at least two names"

And of course, US sites that asssume 'everyone will have a first, last 
name and a middle initial - but not more than one' and (for an example) 
sites that only permit one second name - which does not work well with 
the name on the debit card for (at least) Spanish speaking cultures, 
where you have a name, a patronymic and a matronymic (which don't change 
with marriage - another bad assumption on 'anglo-sajon' speaking 
websites... or assumptions that a male and female child will all get 
their father's name, which is not true in so many cultures, Europe and 
Worldwide.

In fact assumptions on names are typically problematic.

MeJ
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