Re: [geolocation-api] What does "decimal degrees" mean? (#135)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_degrees says it's a notation—i.e. a text format—which as @mgiuca says isn't a great description of the numeric value stored in these attributes. I'd lean toward @mgiuica's suggestion as being the shortest option: "... coordinates specified in degrees". If it's important to be really clear that these aren't integers, we could use "... coordinates specified as a real number of degrees", but I think the WebIDL type is clear enough that we don't need that extra length.

However, if someone who works with WGS84 professionally says I'm wrong, they're probably right. :)

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