Re: Scientific notation in numbers

• From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
• Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:52:02 -0500
• To: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
• CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <4B733892.2040108@mit.edu>

On 2/10/10 4:19 PM, Daniel Glazman wrote:
> Don't forget the CSS3 attr() notation allows to use directly such
> an attribute value as the value of a CSS property.

It also allows using the values "+-1000", "17.5.8.9", "abcdef", etc. 
Presumably it defines what needs to happen with the attribute value if 
it's expected to produce a number or length out of it.

> Hence the need to parse scientific notation anyway in CSS3...

That's presupposing a particular "what needs to happen with the 
attribute value", no?

-Boris

Received on Wednesday, 10 February 2010 22:52:38 UTC