Currency microformat

On Jul 17, 2006, at 11:24 PM, Ben Buchanan wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> A recent discussion with a travelling friend has
sparked some ideas
> about a microformat for displaying prices and other
currency-based
> figures.
>
> The classic problem example would be a page stating a
price of "$50".
> Is that Australian dollars? US dollars? Monopoly money?

>
> So anyway I'm following The Process
> (http://microform
ats.org/wiki/process) and I'm up to searching for
> existing formats/work. So far I've only seen the ISO
standard for
> three-letter codes, no format or microformat for
consistently
> displaying them.
>
> Does anyone know of relevant resources I should check
out?

It'd be interesting to see how e-commerce sites do this.
Especially  
sites like amazon which have seperate stores in different
languages  
and currencies. Try documenting their markup on http:// 
microformats.org/wiki/currency-examples .

thanks,
ryan



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On July 18, 2006 12:08 PM, Ryan King wrote:
> On Jul 17, 2006, at 11:24 PM, Ben Buchanan wrote:

> > The classic problem example would be a page
stating a price 
> of "$50".
> > Is that Australian dollars? US dollars? Monopoly
money? 
> >
> > So anyway I'm following The Process
> > (http://microform
ats.org/wiki/process) and I'm up to searching for 
> > existing formats/work. So far I've only seen the
ISO standard for 
> > three-letter codes, no format or microformat for
consistently 
> > displaying them.
> >
> > Does anyone know of relevant resources I should
check out?
> 
> It'd be interesting to see how e-commerce sites do
this. 
> Especially sites like amazon which have seperate stores
in 
> different languages and currencies. Try documenting
their 
> markup on http:/
/microformats.org/wiki/currency-examples .

I got the page kicked off by capturing a few examples in the
wild and some
of the brainstorming that took place here on the list. I put
both on the
examples page for now. We can split them up if activity
warrants.

Best,
Steve

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