[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 208190] Use SI Units (based on 1000, not 1024) for file sizes, per HIG

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208190

--- Comment #12 from Brian Burg <bburg at apple.com> ---
We can haggle all day about the HIG, but the reality is that the rest of Apple's development toolchain still uses KB = 1024 bytes. As do most other developer tools that I'm familiar with. Your own feature document shows skepticism about this change, noting that the authoritative references are simply Wikipedia articles and the Apple HIG. Not exactly a compelling argument to me, but to each their own. Other attempts to use SI units in web standards (i.e., to add to TC39) and tooling also haven't gone anywhere. It seems like a Chrome bug about inconsistent unit labels has developed a life of its own.

I also take issue with how this was proposed in the first place. You invited one WebKit committer to the feature document some number of months ago, and made a bug in Bugzilla without providing further context (yknow, like the big feature document with alternatives spelled out). Please email webkit-dev if you'd like opinions that represent the entire WebKit community.

It would be great to bring this topic to the Browser Tools and Testing working group, which includes a wider set of perspectives than people cc'd to this bug. Perhaps a colleague could introduce and discuss a resolution regarding SI units. I'd love to see it. I'm not going to spend any more time arguing in Bugzilla about this.

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