diff --git a/addons/website/models/ir_qweb.py b/addons/website/models/ir_qweb.py
index 0a196869204..f348bd7d9c3 100644
--- a/addons/website/models/ir_qweb.py
+++ b/addons/website/models/ir_qweb.py
@@ -179,26 +179,8 @@ class Image(orm.AbstractModel):
         return out.getvalue().encode('base64')
 
 class Monetary(orm.AbstractModel):
-    """
-    The website's monetary field/widget can become website-aware, and thus
-    should be able to use a pricelist somehow available through the session?
-    Why not directly the qweb context. There's also a method stored in
-    the ecommerce controller in website_sale, would that one be a good/better
-    idea? => just eval some string and hope that's a pricelist?
-
-    Either way, it also gets the ability to fetch the "company" pricelist
-    via website.get_current().company_id (or 'res_company' in the qweb context)
-
-    The widget then needs to call (ir.currency).compute(from_currency,
-    to_currency, value) to convert the company's to the user's during display
-    and the other way around during parsing
-    """
     _name = 'website.qweb.field.monetary'
     _inherit = ['website.qweb.field', 'ir.qweb.field.monetary']
 
-    def source_currency(self, cr, uid, options):
-        assert 'source_currency' not in options,\
-            u"The source currency is automatically defined by the website" \
-            u" and must not be provided"
-
-        return self.pool['website'].get_current().company_id.currency_id
+    def from_html(self, cr, uid, model, column, element, context=None):
+        return float(element.find('span').text)