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Bug 14801 - 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.
Summary: Unit of Measure (UOM) support; If HTML can make a tag with well know units of...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Robin Berjon
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-11-11 20:41 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-03-11 15:43 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-11-11 20:41:31 UTC 
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.

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Comment 1 Robin Berjon 2013-01-21 15:59:07 UTC 
Mass move to "HTML WG"
Comment 2 Robin Berjon 2013-01-21 16:01:52 UTC 
Mass move to "HTML WG"
Comment 3 Robin Berjon 2013-03-11 15:43:02 UTC 
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Status: Additional Information Needed
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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?