| daniel added a comment. |
@James_Budday Thanks. If we do want separate fields, they should probably look like this. The strange popup mechanism we currently use for units and and language selection is really a hack working around the assumption that there can only be one input box.
I for one really like it if i can just type what i mean, without stepping through various input fields. I really appreciate interfaces that understand syntax - and considering the use of @ and # for marking up keywords on twitter, facebook, phabricator & co, I think this is quite common, at least for power users.
In any case, please note that we already support special syntax for specifying the uncertainty or precision of the input. And we require people to use that syntax to express precision. input examples:
- 123 (unspecified precision)
- 123.5+/-0.2 (uncertainty range is 0.4)
- 7e3 (7000 with three insignificant digits)
I don't think we should mix "use syntax" with "use fields". We should do either syntax for everything, of fields for everything, or both for everything. But syntax for precision but a separate field for units seems... odd.
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