- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:21:16 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Max Romantschuk wrote: > > Having used the web for the past 15 years I've always felt that it's a > shame when you run into a page with a set of measurements and those > can't be interpreted automatically in a sensible fashion. Especially > with the fact that there are both imperial and metric units still around > in this day and age. > > An backwards compatible inline element to specify a quantity would be > rather trivial: > > <quantity unit="cm">12 cm</quantity> > <quantity unit="kg">2 kg</quantity> > > With this implementation a number inside the quantity element would be > interpreted as the numerical value of the unit. Other characters would > be ignored. That way old browsers would simply ignore the unknown tag, > whereas a browser aware of this tag could provide DOM hooks for things > like implementing a browser extension to convert between metric and > imperial units. I don't really understand the use case here. What problem would this be solving? What do we have to demonstrate that this problem matters? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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