- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:36:12 +0100
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:31:23 +0100, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen at iki.fi> wrote: >> why does finding a number in text [1] insist on "." as a decimal >> seperator, when , is also very commonly used? > > I think the format should be kept simple (and potentially politically > incorrect), because the human-readability is only a legacy fallback > issue. That is, users aren't exposed to the number formatting in UAs > that actually implement progress bars and gauges. You might also want to use this algorithm for the proposed class="price". In that case you really want to take into account "," as well. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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