- From: Xidorn Quan via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 02:10:58 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
Looks like the spec doesn't agree with any of the implementation here. I think the idea here should be to keep 6 decimals starting from the first non-zero decimal, i.e. leading zeros are excluded from the count, so something like `0.00123456789` would be serialized to `0.00123457`. This matches the current behavior of Firefox and Chrome. The reason to choose 6 decimals is probably because precision of a single precision floating-point number is only 7.22 decimals. I'm not sure whether it is safe to do 7 decimals, but it definitely shouldn't go beyond that. Regarding the scientific notation, it seems Firefox starts using scientific notation when it is smaller than 1e-6, while Chrome starts doing so when smaller than 1e-4. Also Chrome starts using scientific notation when the number is not smaller than 1e6, while Firefox always serialize the whoe number if it is an integer. I guess it makes sense to allow serialization to scientific notation on a boundary decided by implementations. This should be clarified in the spec. -- GitHub Notification of comment by upsuper Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2330#issuecomment-366486954 using your GitHub account
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