[Bug 11936] New: Progress element max and value IDL attributes should be float, not double

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11936

           Summary: Progress element max and value IDL attributes should
                    be float, not double
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: mounir.lamouri@gmail.com
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
                    public-html@w3.org


AFAIUI, max and value content attributes are limited to single precision float
values [1] so I don't understand why IDL attributes reflecting them should be
double.
Maybe parsing float algorithm should be changed to allow double-precision
attributes? Otherwise, these attribute should be float.

[1]
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/common-microsyntaxes.html#rules-for-parsing-floating-point-number-values

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Received on Tuesday, 1 February 2011 11:46:04 UTC