- From: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:28:30 +0100 (BST)
- To: public-html@w3.org
The current WF2 spec says: "For numeric controls, the default value of the step attribute is 1." I think this is wrong. For fields used to enter floating point numbers you can use the step attribute to specify a fixed precision, e.g. 0.01 for a number used for the price in dollars, but how do you indicate an infinitesimally small value with step without an ugly assumption about the precision the implementation is using to represent floating point numbers? The spec should define the default for type="number" as an infinitesimally small value or we should consider introducing a new type such as type="float" if we want to retain 1 as the default for the case where numeric fields are most commonly used for integers. Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett
Received on Sunday, 25 March 2007 18:29:04 UTC