On Dec 13, 2006, at 08:32, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
How can this be dealt with without making the parsing dependent on
lang and requiring the UAs to implement all-encompassing CLDR-
aware number parsing?
It can't. But why bother making a standard that so clearly fails to
work in major world languages? Everything should be as simple as
possible *and no simpler* - this is too simple. Maybe assuming you
can parse numbers out of text is just a dumb idea as a normative
part of a spec.
The attributes always work for any language. For English, the
textContent works as a *bonus*. It isn't that the spec fails to work
for non-English. It is just that a particular *redundant* bonus
feature doesn't work for non-English.
If giving redundant bonus features to English-language pages is
deemed politically too incorrect, I'd rather get rid of the
textContent stuff than introduce the huge can of worms language-
dependent number parsing.
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Henri Sivonen
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