WF2 step attribute

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