Why is it bad practice to ask for full name in a form? : <p>In many many forms you see separate inputs for first and last name. I assume that asking for a users full name in one input is bad practice because you cannot rely on simply splitting the string by spaces to get the first and last names.</p>

<p>Now I think about it i'm not sure if this would be a problem, can anyone shed any light on whether this is good or bad practice and if it is bad to ask for full name in a single input, why is it bad.</p>

<p>Thanks</p>
