Re: Request for Comments: Last Call WD of Widgets 1.0: Packaging & Configuration spec; deadline 31 Jan 2009

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Marcos Caceres wrote:
> On 1/23/09 2:25 PM, "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> > 
> >    "There may be implementation-specific limits on the range of
> >     integers allowed, and behavior outside such limits is undefined."
> 
> You should probably tell the HTML5 guys about this too, as it may be 
> relevant there.

HTML5 already says:

   User agents may impose implementation-specific limits on otherwise 
   unconstrained inputs, e.g. to prevent denial of service attacks, to 
   guard against running out of memory, or to work around 
   platform-specific limitations.

...and there are several other statements in the spec to handle specific 
cases (e.g. out-of-JS-Number-range attribute values reflected into the 
DOM, or handling out-of-control scripts).

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