Colin wrote:
This proposal is shaping up nicely. Could you think of other "client" uses for just the measurement format? Already described in this thread were some excellent uses for measurement + currency (e.g. searching job listings).
Thanks Colin. For just the measurement format, of course automatic localization based on a browser preference, but I imagine you already thought about this one.
Also, I'm curious to know your thoughts on how this would tie in to the proposed historical uF. Would the entire currency+measure get wrapped in a history? That doesn't seem entirely necessary: the size of a barrel of oil doesn't change (right?). Only the $ currency fluctuates.
In my adaptation of XBRL currency semantics to uF, I have explored the use of empty anchors as references to global definitions of units instead of redundant local definitions, but I haven't got any feedback from the community on this yet. See http://microformats.org/wiki/currency-formats#XBRL
This is not just relevant for the history uF but also for any tabular representation (ex. financial statements) where you don't want to repeat the unit/currency in each cell. See http://microformats.org/wiki/currency-examples#Use_of_currency_amounts_in_tables
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