- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:20:02 -0700
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Tab Atkins Jr.<jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Jonas Sicking<jonas@sicking.cc> wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Lachlan Hunt<lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au> wrote: >>> Adrian Bateman wrote: >>>> >>>> On Friday, August 14, 2009 10:46 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Adrian Bateman<adrianba@microsoft.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm also concerned about how fragile the content parsing rules may turn >>>>>> out to be in practice. >>>> >>>>> This is anecdotal, but to me it appears that they're rather robust, at >>>>> least for English. >>>> >>>> I think this is my specific concern - how well does this work >>>> internationally? >>> >>> The parsing algorithm only supports using the full stop as the decimal >>> separator. People from regions that normally use the comma as the decimal >>> separator, and who wish to use that notation for fallback, need to provide >>> the value in the attributes. >>> >>> So to represent the value 75,3%, they would have to use: >>> >>> <progress value="0.753">75,3%</progress> >> >> Then there is the thousands-separator issue, in Swedish it's common to write >> >> <progress>203'321 byte av totalt 1'048'576<progress> > > I'm wondering if it's possible to revise the algorithm to ignore > grouping glyphs commonly used internationally. Even using the , as a > thousands separator, as is common in English, would break parsing. Actually, i noticed that "75 out of 100" is not a problem. The algorithm says that the maximum number is the higher of the two, and the current value is the lower. However that makes something like this fun: <progress>200 av 1,024</progress> Is that 20% (comma interpreted as thousand separator) or is that 0.5% (comma interpreted as decimal separator)? / Jonas
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