[Bug 12220] Make sure rules for parsing a float are the same in HTML and in Javascript specifications

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12220

Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |ian@hixie.ch
         Resolution|                            |FIXED

--- Comment #7 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2011-05-05 21:16:00 UTC ---
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale:

We can't use the exact parseFloat() algorithm since that supports things like
"Infinity".

I've fixed the algorithm to support the syntax ES supports, though. These
mistakes were unintentional.

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Received on Thursday, 5 May 2011 21:16:02 UTC