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Re: [css3-values] More "random" issues

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:47:24 -0700
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDCaTqC+vqnMq0gFkkyHUq+PNg5Gp=5DT042RZgO7NxviA@mail.gmail.com>
To: Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com>
Cc: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>, W3C style mailing list <www-style@w3.org> 
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com> wrote:
> Suppose a UA implemented "random" to always evaluate to 0, except on February 29th when it evaluates to 1.
>
> Is that UA non-conformant?  Or does it just have a "somewhat undesirable" pseudorandom number generator?

Presumably a spec would have some definition of the acceptable
distribution.  ^_^

~TJ
Received on Wednesday, 12 October 2011 19:48:11 UTC

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