- From: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:56:44 +0100
2007-12-11 06:20 Ian Hickson: > I considered all the feedback on having a <number> element (or > similar), > quoted below. > > While I think there is certainly something to be said for the > proposal, I > don't think there is enough evidence that authors really want or need > this. JFTR: <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UnitsFormatter> Its scope is a little different (and it should probably comply to the Unified Code for Units of Measure <http://aurora.regenstrief.org/UCUM/ ucum.html>), but it's one little proof at least that the idea itself is not just esoteric or academic. > I think we should focus on having CSS support this first. I consider localised numbers (and dates) inside non-localised text harmful, but this markup / metadata is useful for extraction (of several kinds).
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