- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 19:17:42 -0700
- To: Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Received on Tuesday, 8 April 2014 02:18:07 UTC
On Monday 2014-04-07 21:41 -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote: > Are there any circumstances where (expr) / <length> risks division by > zero when the denominator is not syntactically detectable as zero? Not > (expr) / (expr) where the denominator happens to be type length, but a > literal <length>. Use of font-size-dependent units combined with 'font-size: 0' produces that result, and perhaps some other similar cases. It's certainly a more realistic problem with expressions of type length, though (e.g., dividing by (5em - 60px)). -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. - Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1914)
Received on Tuesday, 8 April 2014 02:18:07 UTC