Country List
If you are part of a web application project that’s going to be out and used by public, you must most likely have a feature for the user to register to your site for various services. Getting the country where the user is from is part of the user registration form. Since there are nearly 200 countries probably you were thinking to display them in a combo box sorted alphabetically. But based on your own experience with web you might have seen that the users come from 50 to 70% of the countries in the world. It’s a pain if the user’s country starting letter is somewhere at the end and he/she has to scroll through (or type few letters) to get there. Here is an article “Putting some intelligence into web applications” that has a cool logic to capture the most number of users from countries and display in that order. The sample program is in PHP but no big deal to translate it in any language.
