- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:31:18 +0200
- To: "Dave Raggett" <dsr@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:28:30 +0200, Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> wrote: > 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. What's the use case? -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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