<input type="country" />

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A screenshot of a list of country flags

Recently, Lea Verou asked an important question about whether HTML should have a standardised way of letting users select a country from a list. HTML Idea: <input type="country"> which would become a searchable dropdown with all countries and their flags.Wouldn't that be awesome? — Lea Verou (@LeaVerou) October 21, 2017 You can read through the…

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Why can't you send email to a Chinese address?

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We all know what an email address looks like and how to validate them, right? A few years ago I got the Chinese domain name 莎士比亚.org. You can browse to it, link to it, and send email to it. Or can you? When I tried two years ago, none of the major email providers supported…

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