Andre Merzky wrote:
Oh well... - you can't make everybody happy. At the end one needs to decide on one of the options, and either way, just getting rid of units (by defining them as fixed) seems like a good solution. As others stated: a UI can always represent a more suitable version...
We work in different domains, clearly. For me, and the work I've done full time for the past 7 years, and hundreds of other people doing grid computing (which I am definitely saying is different from the requirements of cloud computing folks) there is a lot of manual creation of descriptor files, so "raw" data useability in terms of creation and in terms of readability is an important factor. It would not be unreasonable to have a "basic" and "advanced" profile for properties, where basic use a fixed/unitary unit, while "advanced" use a type/scale modifier for the units, or support unit conversion. Designing a standard so it is easy to write JavaScript web pages for it doesn't seem like it should be a dominant concern. Anyway, I only chimed in because someone asked about application of units to some of the properties. Ian