[whatwg] Annotating structured data that HTML has no semanticsfor
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Tue Jun 30 21:22:08 PDT 2009
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Kristof Zelechovski wrote:
>
> * Let a COLOR element have a value DOM property in the DOM that returns a
> color.
.value already does so.
> * Let a NUMBER element has a value DOM property that returns a number.
.valueAsNumber already does so.
> Actually, the latter use case is one I have bumped into:
> * The DOM does not provide a numeric value,
As noted, it now does.
> * JavaScript support for parsing localized properties is poor; you have to
> reverse engineer the result of toLocaleString,
The localised properties aren't exposed.
> * VBScript support is better but inconsistent as it depends on the system
> locale and not on the document locale as desired.
Then don't use VBScript; it's a vendor-specific technology anyway.
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