- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 22:14:54 +0000 (UTC)
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Mounir Lamouri wrote: > > A few months ago all float attributes changed to double attributes [1]. > I'm wondering why float IDL attributes reflecting content attributes > moved to double attributes given that the content attributes are still > following the rules for parsing floating point numbers [2]. So, AFAIUI, > these double IDL attributes will be limited to single precision floating > point values so why using the double type instead of the float type? > > [1] http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5372&to=5373 > [2] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/common-microsyntaxes.html#rules-for-parsing-floating-point-number-values The rules for parsing floating point numbers now go to +/- 2^1024, which hopefully addresses this problem. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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