>> Consider (for example): >> >> The £ was worth 2.50 dollars >> or: >> >> £1 was worth 2.50 dollars
Those are edge cases which require additional complexity. I'm advocating that edge cases, which are certainly in the 20 percentile or less have the complexity whereas the more common use-cases (certainly more than 80 percentile) should require less complex markup. Most of the time we see just $2.50 or just £1. My point is "Why require all the overhead (which will likely cause this microformat not to get used very often) in order to support far less common use-cases with the same markup?" >From my experience of running a small internet retailer for 12 years, I'm pretty sure we'd have moved quickly to implement markup if all it required was a span around a price, but if it required understanding a logic tree to get it right, we would have been put off implementing it for a good long while if ever. JMTCW. -Mike -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Mabbett Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 7:00 AM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Currency Quickpoll: Preliminary results In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Schinkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Alternately, can't the symbols be extracted as not being alphanumeric >characters? Consider (for example): The £ was worth 2.50 dollars or: £1 was worth 2.50 dollars >The >currency proposal at >http://microformats.org/wiki/currency-brainstorming#Andy_Mabbett just >seems really complex to me (but maybe it has to be.) I'd say the latter, but if, not, try paring away whatever you consider unnecessary, and see at what point you'd stop. Note also my recent message about the reasons for needing to identify the 'symbol'. -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/> Free Our Data: <http://www.freeourdata.org.uk> _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
