[rossmohax]

> towering at an astonishing 25,646 feet

Why does Web have localization for time values (date format, first day of a week, etc), but not for dimensional or weight measurements?

[lexicality]

Because the kind of American that understands that not everyone knows how big a foot is already puts the actual length in brackets so the people that cause problems wouldn't use it even if it was a feature.

Also, if it worked like <date> you'd have to put the value in a standardised unit (eg SI units) which would also annoy the Americans and they'd refuse to do it.

[8bitsrule]

24/3 = 8

"An astonishing 8000 meters" is about as astonishing as 7,817

Machines are already 'correcting' our spelling, do we really want to lose our estimation skills too?

[TheGallopedHigh]

SI units