Comments on: Firefox Currency Converter – ViewMyCurrency 0.389 (alpha) released

By: Will Moffat

Will Moffat — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:04:16 +0000

Hi pheloxi, good point about prefs.js I am making a bit of a mess there. Added to my ToDo list.

By: pheloxi

pheloxi — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 14:23:12 +0000

the complete list of possible currencies appears in prefs.js in profiles directory. it makes prefs.js a lot bigger, that necessary.

just look at foxclocks extension “solution”
http://www.stemhaus.com/firefox/foxclocks/

By: Mattias

Mattias — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 09:29:15 +0000

I’ve got a bug report/feature request: It would be nice if it recognizes when the amount is formatted like this: ($23.6) million. And not convert it as $23.6 USD but rater include the million.

Example page(Intresting subject to!): http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,1925349,00.asp

By: Will Moffat

Will Moffat — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 11:28:56 +0000

Hi Claes, that’s a good example of what I mean. But it won’t be implemented for a while as now I’m focusing on domain-specific conversion to solve the Dollar problem.

By: Claes

Claes — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 11:10:49 +0000

Hi Will, Did I understand you correctly – will the following sentence:

“Audiences shell out 169.97 kr million for his jokes”

in future versions be able to look like this (prefered):

“Audiences shell out 169.97 million kr for his jokes”

and with my earlier “round up/down” option suggestion implemented, even better:

“Audiences shell out 170 million kr for his jokes”

By: Mattias

Mattias — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:30:43 +0000

I’d really like to get the metric/imperial conversion also. This would be so cool. You could localize the web! So I really think that this should be added in the future.

By: Will Moffat

Will Moffat — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:22:17 +0000

Hi Simon. Good point, convert numeric words is on my ToDo list.
http://viewmycurrency.backpackit.com/pub/403081#item_2839587

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:12:45 +0000

Small – impossible to solve – bug:

“According to surveys, the number one problem facing the €2.10B content management industry is the high cost of commercial software followed by lack of flexibility, customization, usability and inability to migrate old content.”

Use your ViewMyCurrency to see the result, the context is lost because the B isn’t recognized. Don’t know if this is possible but could you assume that characters attached to the value do have something to do with it?

By: pheloxi

pheloxi — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:06:49 +0000

I made simple conquery extension plug in for xe.com for private use only. I did not publish it.
http://conquery.mozdev.org/

your extension is very useful as an indication to prices. something I was looking for while.

thank you!

By: Will

Will — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:59:35 +0000

Bug: Symbol ‘P’ for PHP (Philippine peso) not recognised

At http://www.nationalbookstore.com.ph/laking_national_2.asp?id2=1
——- I saw: ————
worth P5,000
——- Expected to see: –
worth €82 (₱5,000)
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Browser: [Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Firefox/1.5], ver: [0.389], source: [USD $, EUR €, GBP £, PHP ₱], target: [EUR €], current: [EUR €], langs: [en-gb, en,nl,fr-be,et],
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