[Bug 14801] New: Unit of Measure (UOM) support; If HTML can make a tag with well know units of measure, like miles, pounds, grams, etc as first class attribute types. For example, if there a tag like <uom type="pounds">100</uom> where we want to show "100 lbs" on screen.

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14801

           Summary: Unit of Measure (UOM) support; If HTML can make a tag
                    with well know units of measure, like miles, pounds,
                    grams, etc as first class attribute types. For
                    example, if there a tag like <uom
                    type="pounds">100</uom> where we want to show "100
                    lbs" on screen.
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
               URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
                    public-html@w3.org


Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/Overview.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
Unit of Measure (UOM) support;

If HTML can make a tag with well know units of measure, like miles, pounds,
grams, etc as first class attribute types. For example, if there a tag like
<uom type="pounds">100</uom> where we want to show "100 lbs" on screen.

  If the web browser, want to see in kilograms, the browser can have drop-down
next to that to convert. or user preference (or country preference), can
automatically show in local locale.

Posted from: 32.97.110.57
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/8.0

-- 
Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
You are on the CC list for the bug.

Received on Friday, 11 November 2011 20:41:35 UTC