- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:47:14 +0200
On Dec 13, 2006, at 08:32, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: >> How can this be dealt with without making the parsing dependent on >> lang and requiring the UAs to implement all-encompassing CLDR- >> aware number parsing? > > It can't. But why bother making a standard that so clearly fails to > work in major world languages? Everything should be as simple as > possible *and no simpler* - this is too simple. Maybe assuming you > can parse numbers out of text is just a dumb idea as a normative > part of a spec. The attributes always work for any language. For English, the textContent works as a *bonus*. It isn't that the spec fails to work for non-English. It is just that a particular *redundant* bonus feature doesn't work for non-English. If giving redundant bonus features to English-language pages is deemed politically too incorrect, I'd rather get rid of the textContent stuff than introduce the huge can of worms language- dependent number parsing. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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