Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-syntax-3] Inconsistency in defining <number-token> (#7247)

I am glad I mentioned my motivation - needing a *definition* of valid real numbers in SVG.

SVG points to CSS-Values, CSS-Values points to CSS-Syntax, and now you are saying that none of those sources are 'normative', none actually definitive?

What is one to make of the absence of definition of something as simple as floating point number syntax? Can you point to where valid syntax for real numbers *is* defined?

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Digression: Years ago when flex-box came out a simple permutation of holy grail layout worked on 3 of the major browsers, but not on the 4th. After much discussion about the ~bug~ difference, one person on that 4th team pulled a Humpty-Dumpty and declared that one particular word in the spec meant what *they* said it meant, and no one else's opinion mattered. One word insufficiently specified, and thus a valid usage unavailable, because that browser was king, and so were they. Years later they left, a couple months after that the bug was quietly fixed.  One word, one person, painful imprecision.

I know that specs are hard, agreement difficult, collegiality required and so compromises needed, but hey, practice on the easy stuff?


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