Handling Irish postcodes in web forms
I saw the following in an Apple iTunes web form today.
Billing Address
The Postcode may be empty, or for Dublin, enter a one or two digit code, or a digit followed by a letter.
Why is this a big deal?
There is no official country-wide postcode system in Ireland. We have a small set of codes for areas of Dublin instead (apparently because of a dispute with the postal worker when the government tried to introduce them). Successive governments have done no better.
Anyway most web users in Ireland are conditioned to enter ‘00000’ or the like into zipcode fields when required. This form from Apple is the first web site I’ve every seen to actually get it right. Well done.
