HTML Idea: <input type="country"> which would become a searchable dropdown with all countries and their flags. Wouldn't that be awesome?
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Replying to @LeaVerou
The political decisions involved in building and shipping the default set of values in that would be... messy.

Oct 21, 2017 · 5:12 PM UTC

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Replying to @davidbaron
Just refer to an existing standard, like ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
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And in how many jurisdictions would use of that list be illegal if it were labeled as "Country" (rather than, say, "Country or Region")?
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Replying to @davidbaron @LeaVerou
Any more controversial than what emoji flags ship, though? (And I realise Mozilla uniquely don't ship fonts.)
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At a minimum, the emoji flags aren't explicitly described as countries.
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Replying to @davidbaron @LeaVerou
Reminds me of what happened when Rails adopted the ISO country list. computer.org/csdl/mags/ds/20…
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Replying to @davidbaron @LeaVerou
Yes, as with blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/old… years ago. I like the idea of not having that massive list several times on a page or duped in script.
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Replying to @davidbaron @LeaVerou
When I was 22, I put "republic of taiwan" in a menu, citing an official name for taiwan I looked up. China got angry.