Introducing an HTML `<amount>` Element

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Users from around the world often see numerical amounts on web pages either in unfamiliar units, or with unfamiliar punctuation denoting large or decimal amounts which can be hard to interpret, or worse, easily misinterpreted. If publishers had a mechanism to explicitly denote these numerical amounts and their units if any, then browsers could offer a privacy-respecting user-interface to display these amounts to the user according to their local units and punctuation preferences.

Background reading:

• Mozilla has written up an Amount element explainer with further details for consideration.
• There is also a separate but related TC39 Amount object proposal working on similar use-cases.
• Firefox shipped an address bar unit conversion UI recently.

Agenda

Chairs:
Eemeli Aro, Tantek Çelik

Description:
Users from around the world often see numerical amounts on web pages either in unfamiliar units, or with unfamiliar punctuation denoting large or decimal amounts which can be hard to interpret, or worse, easily misinterpreted. If publishers had a mechanism to explicitly denote these numerical amounts and their units if any, then browsers could offer a privacy-respecting user-interface to display these amounts to the user according to their local units and punctuation preferences.

Background reading:

• Mozilla has written up an Amount element explainer with further details for consideration.
• There is also a separate but related TC39 Amount object proposal working on similar use-cases.
• Firefox shipped an address bar unit conversion UI recently.

Goal(s):
Discussion and consideration of the use-cases and shape of what an <amount> element could look like, how it could work, and how its capabilities can and should be balanced with privacy considerations.

Materials:

• Session proposal on GitHub

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