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Just as a note, I know that for e-commerce shopping cart forms, we specifically force users to enter their address information and zip code.

No matter what you think, users aren't paying attention to what they enter in the forms. Forcing them to enter their address and zipcode allows you to do a cross check to make sure they entered everything correctly.

You may find it annoying, but when it prevents people from ordering items to the wrong address, it's a pretty useful extra field.



Totally agree! The jQuery plugin that I started working on will actually just populate those fields in the form so they can be changed after the fact.

Feel free to contribute! https://github.com/daspecster/ziptastic-jquery-plugin


If you are using jQuery, then why `var client = new XMLHttpRequest();` for the love of god, embrace `$.ajax()`




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