On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Jonas Sicking wrote:
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Ian Hicksoni...@hixie.ch wrote:
I can't imagine really seeing enough sites using this to make it worth
it, but maybe our experience with time will show this kind of thing
is used a lot.
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009,
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Ian Hicksoni...@hixie.ch wrote:
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Jonas Sicking wrote:
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Ian Hicksoni...@hixie.ch wrote:
I can't imagine really seeing enough sites using this to make it worth
it, but maybe our experience with time will show
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Ian Hicksoni...@hixie.ch wrote:
From a practical perspective it would be nice to have an unambiguous way
to mark up numerical constants in a document and thus allow a
straightforward way of doing conversions.
Personally, the obvious use case for me is recipes.
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Max Romantschuk wrote:
Ian Hickson wrote:
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?
It might well be that there is no problem.
Ok. Then I recommend we punt this to the
Aryeh Gregor wrote:
It's not very hard to auto-convert units without semantic markup. I'd
think it would be pretty easy to write a browser extension that read
through a site's HTML and converted the units without author support.
This would have the major advantage of not relying on authors
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
Jeremy Keith wrote:
Unit-measures differ from locale to locale (e.g. Fahrenheit vs. Celsius,
pound versus Kilogram), making comparison and matching of offerings
difficult.
There's more variation than that: (imperial) gallon v. (US) gallon.
Cases like that really make it hard to deal with.
Ian Hickson wrote:
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?
It might well be that there is no problem. From a practical perspective
it would be nice to have an ambiguous way to mark up numerical
Max Romantschuk wrote:
it would be nice to have an ambiguous way to mark up numerical constants
Make that an unambiguous way... I seem to have lost my negations today.
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On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Max Romantschukm...@romantschuk.fi wrote:
It might well be that there is no problem. From a practical perspective it
would be nice to have an ambiguous way to mark up numerical constants in a
document and thus allow a straightforward way of doing conversions.
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
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Max Romantschukm...@romantschuk.fi wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I've been off the list for quite some time, so bear with me if I missed
something searching the archives.
I've been looking at the meter element, which specifically states that
There is no explicit way
Hi Everyone,
I've been off the list for quite some time, so bear with me if I missed
something searching the archives.
I've been looking at the meter element, which specifically states that
There is no explicit way to specify units in the meter element, but the
units may be specified in the
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