Re: Scientific notation in numbers

Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> 
> Thus an implementation of SVG 1.1 would be expected to parse
> scientific notation only in the XML attribute values.  Then <length>
> is defined in terms of <number> and explicitly points to the above
> distinction.
...
> 
> I don't know what changes have been made in the SVG 2 drafts.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-SVGTiny12-20081222/types.html#DataTypeNumber
seems to have dropped the distinction (and the compatibility-with-CSS2
rationale) that you quote.

zw