Max 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.
There is currently some work going on around measurements over on the
microformats wiki:
http://microformats.org/wiki/measure
If you could share any ideas you have on the brainstorming page, that
would be most welcome:
http://microformats.org/wiki/measure-brainstorming
...and if you have any examples of markup in the wild, that would be
great:
http://microformats.org/wiki/measure-examples
Hixie asked:
I don't really understand the use case here. What problem would this
be
solving?
The problem statement on the microformats wiki page reads:
"Measures (e.g. weights, sizes, temperatures) occur frequently on the
Web, they are constituted of a value a unit-measure and, in scientific
and technical contexts, an experimental uncertainty. These 3 elements
should be marked-up consistently across websites so that they can be
easily identified and acted upon (export, compute, convert) in
collaborative distributed applications.
Unit-measures differ from locale to locale (e.g. Fahrenheit vs.
Celsius, pound versus Kilogram), making comparison and matching of
offerings difficult.
The measurement microformat will enable unambiguous description of
physical quantities and thus provide a solid ground for data sharing
and automation in many areas."
Max wrote:
Personally, the obvious use case for me is recipes.
...
With the large majority of humanity doing cooking one could argue
that this would be genuinely useful. Then again, it's quite possible
no one would ever use this, and it would just end up cluttering the
spec.
I agree that there is a genuine use case and I also agree that the
spec doesn't need to be cluttered with a solution that use case. I
think that measurement in general (and recipes in particular) are best
solved by microformats and/or microdata.
By the way, there is a draft recipe microformat in the works and, once
again, your input would be very welcome:
http://microformats.org/wiki/hRecipe
Bye,
Jeremy
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