RE: [Phpgroupware-developers] NEW APP: addbook is in cvs

[Brian Johnson]

Option 3 (quick fix for now)
Have the source code available so that each user can rearrange the html to
his/her hearts desire



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> Brad Sturgill
> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 2:45 PM
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> Subject: RE: [Phpgroupware-developers] NEW APP: addbook is in cvs
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> In response to the postal code... I don't believe that there
> is any reason
> that anybody should have to "conform" to ONE particular
> standard, rather
> that the system be flexible to meet the standard of the end
> user.  To that
> end, there are a number of ways to facilitate this change
> including but not
> limited to:
>
> 1.  recognizing the location of the individual (by country)
> and applying the
> standard.
> 2.  by allowing the end user to define screen sequence
> standards on their
> own in preferences.  this would allow a default preference to
> be established
> by the administrator and then the user to override the default if they
> prefer.
>
> This should be true for everything that has different
> geographic standards.
>
>
> On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 06:47:16PM -0700, Brad Sturgill wrote:
> > Thanks Seek3r,
>
> Yes, thanks Seek3r.
>
> > Heiko & Michael, can you work on the standards issues?  I
> have to admit
>
> Please note that Heiko is the one who coded addbook. So he better
> answers this.
>
> As a matter of fact I have to learn more php to code myself. :-)
>
> > 8.  In the U.S. Postal Code typically comes after the
> region (state) when
> > entering.  I am assuming that this is not true globally, but is it
> possible
> > to move this to that location (I will do this in my code
> anyway but...).
>
> Well in Germany the Postal Code always comes before the city.
> Of course
> this is different from the US way to write addresses but why should
> addbook be changed to the US way? I don't understand that argument
> sorry, or did you want to say the majority of countries uses
> the US way?
>
> [This part originally was sent by Seek3r.]
> > addbook is new, and I am not sure how stable it is, but the
> code needs
> > lots of work to be compliant with our standards and some
> parts of the
> > code dont make sense to me. Im sure it will all be worked
> out over time
>
> I think we should compile a list of all open problems/bugs/compliance
> changes etc.
>
> Michael
>
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