Thanks for the input I like the idea of just giving a string for formatting purpose and then overriding the default behavior with some other kind of include to specify decimal and grouper. I'll come up with something for that.
What's your take on including with the mask plugin? They might share some internal methods like character positioning, but that is about it. I'm thinking really hard about making them separate files, but all in the $.fn.mask namespace. Josh digitalbush.com On Oct 20, 9:32 am, Jörn Zaefferer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Josh Bush schrieb:> A lot of people seem to need dynamic width number > masking. Where > > currency symbols, decimal separators, and thousands separators are > > applied automatically. I'm thinking about taking this on, but I have > > a few questions. > > > 1.Should is be a part of the masked input plugin or a separate new > > plugin? > > I could imagine expressions specifiying the possible amount of > characters, similar to regex. Or the number format as used by java, > where you specify something like "#,###.00", and the seperators are > replaced according to the locale. The 0 specifices a required > placeholder, while the "#,###" can repeast (or something like > that:http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/text/DecimalFormat.html). > > > {decimalSeparator:",",thousandsSeparator:"."} This seems clunky to > > me. Is there any good way to read internationalization and > > globalization stuff from the browser? My head is swimming with > > ideas here, I just need some direction. > > I'd prefer including a another file for the appropiate locale that > overwrites the defaults. For example, these date extensions define some > names:http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/plugins/methods/date.js > If the user locale is "de", I'd also include another file on the > serverside:http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/plugins/methods/date_de.js > > Just a few ideas. I'm looking forward to what you come up with :-) > > Regards > Jörn
