Re: [uf-new] Measurement brainstorming (was: Measure currency)

2007-10-05 Thread Chris Newell
Andy, At 12:44 05/10/2007, you wrote: On Fri, October 5, 2007 11:20, Chris Newell wrote: a new measurement microformat straw-man on the wiki: http://microformats.org/wiki/measure-brainstorming#Straw_man I guess you may have been through this but my first thought is why not separate unit-code

Re: [uf-new] Measurement brainstorming (was: Measure currency)

2007-10-05 Thread Chris Newell
Andy, At 15:03 05/10/2007, you wrote: On Fri, October 5, 2007 14:57, Chris Newell wrote: Microformats put the burden, where possible, on parsers, not publishers, in order to make life as easy as possible for publishers. Agreed, but this is a balance. If it's hard to parse you'll get buggy

Re: [uf-new] Measurement brainstorming (was: Measure currency)

2007-10-05 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Fri, October 5, 2007 15:31, Chris Newell wrote: That would be: abbr class=hmeasure title=2m22msup2/sup/abbr using m2, or whatever is that standard for representing square-metres. Given that parsers must accept the formats includes [unit-code][number] would: span

Re: [uf-new] Measurement brainstorming (was: Measure currency)

2007-10-05 Thread Chris Newell
Andy, At 15:49 05/10/2007, you wrote: On Fri, October 5, 2007 15:31, Chris Newell wrote: That would be: abbr class=hmeasure title=2m22msup2/sup/abbr using m2, or whatever is that standard for representing square-metres. Given that parsers must accept the formats includes

Re: [uf-new] Measurement brainstorming (was: Measure currency)

2007-10-04 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Taylor Cowan's eelgant sugegstion in the Currency discussion: http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-new/2007-September /000915.html talkes the form: abbr class=currency title=USD100one hundred bucks/abbr