14801 2011-11-11 20:41:31 +0000 Unit of Measure (UOM) support; If HTML can make a tag with well know units of measure, like miles, pounds, grams, etc as first class attribute types. For example, if there a tag like <uom type="pounds">100</uom> where we want to show "100 lbs" on screen. 2013-03-11 15:43:02 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED NEEDSINFO http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top P3 normal --- 1 contributor robin ian majeed.arni mike philipj plh public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking robin public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 59958 0 contributor 2011-11-11 20:41:31 +0000 Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/Overview.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Comment: Unit of Measure (UOM) support; If HTML can make a tag with well know units of measure, like miles, pounds, grams, etc as first class attribute types. For example, if there a tag like <uom type="pounds">100</uom> where we want to show "100 lbs" on screen. If the web browser, want to see in kilograms, the browser can have drop-down next to that to convert. or user preference (or country preference), can automatically show in local locale. Posted from: 32.97.110.57 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0 81706 1 robin 2013-01-21 15:59:07 +0000 Mass move to "HTML WG" 81824 2 robin 2013-01-21 16:01:52 +0000 Mass move to "HTML WG" 84233 3 robin 2013-03-11 15:43:02 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the Editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the Tracker Issue; or you may create a Tracker Issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Additional Information Needed Change Description: none yet Rationale: Does the following not meet your needs? http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-data-element If not, can you please be clearer as to why?