Articles Tagged zip

I just overheard this discussion on Twitter, kicked off by Dave.

Me (coding a form): <input id="zip" type="number">
Tiny Devil (appears on shoulder): Yaaas! I love the optimism, ship it!
Me: Wait, why are you here? Is this going to blow up on me? What do you know that I don't?

— Dave SPOOPert (@davatron5000) October 9, 2018

It seems like zip codes are just numbers, right? So...

<input id="zip" name="zip" type="number"/>

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Most address fields on web forms ask for city, state, and zip code (or city and post code, outside of the US). But as us nerds often lament, city and state are redundant with zip code. Or at least they can be inferred from a correctly entered zip code. That's the kind of thing computers are good at. What we need is a proper API to cough up that information for us on demand. … Read article