[whatwg] Simple numbers

[Michel Fortin]

Le 6 juin 2006 à 6:37, Keryx webb a écrit :

> The first problem is easily remedied. Wrap in a span and apply CSS  
> "white-space: nowrap" or (not quite as elegant) use non-breaking  
> space.

Have you tried using unbreakable spaces instead?

     123 456 789,12

I'm curious to know if a screen reader can read that correctly.

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Maybe a number element would be valuable, both inside and outside  
formulas, to provide format-neutral machine-readable numeric values:

     <n value="123456789.12">123 456 789,12</n>

But it surly seems a little overkill to write each numeric value  
twice. Duplicating values seems prone to errors. So maybe a number  
with a decimal separator attribute would be a better approach:

     <n dec=",">123 456 789,12</n>

Beside that, it could provide data on other kinds of numbers too:

     <n base="16">329F 2CA0</n>


Michel Fortin
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