- From: Jon Ferraiolo <jferraio@Adobe.COM>
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 06:04:21 -0700
- To: Ben Hutchings <benh@lsl.co.uk>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
Ben, Good question. The working group hasn't addressed this issue yet, but given the name of the language (**scalable** vector graphics) and our desire to satisfy a broad spectrum of needs, it seems likely that we would support scientific notation wherever possible, but stay tuned while the working group makes decisions. One specific issue will be what to do about CSS properties. The CSS2 spec only talks about decimal numbers without an exponent. SVG has some numeric properties (e.g., font-size, letter-spacing, word-spacing) which conceivably could also be expressed in scientific notation. Jon At 02:54 PM 8/2/99 +0100, you wrote: >In path data it is allowable to use scientific notation for numbers in >the format that the C language printf/scanf-family supports. > >Is this allowable anywhere else? > >In particular, can it be used in: >- lengths in CSS units? >- the fitBoxToViewport attribute of <svg>? >- element positions and sizes (x, y, width, height attributes) in user > coordinates? >- the transform attribute? >- the points attribute of <polyline>? >
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