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Bug 8021 - The step with dividing by 10^{length} is phrased very differently to the fraction loop for parsing floating point numbers, but seems to be achieving the same result. They should be phrased the same, to make it clear they're computing the same thing.
Summary: The step with dividing by 10^{length} is phrased very differently to the frac...
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2009-10-23 09:52 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:31 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2009-10-23 09:52:14 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#percentages-and-dimensions

Comment:
The step with dividing by 10^{length} is phrased very differently to the fraction loop for parsing floating point numbers, but seems to be achieving the same result. They should be phrased the same, to make it clear they're computing the same thing.

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2009-10-24 22:37:36 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments.
Comment 2 contributor 2009-10-24 22:38:06 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r4313.
Check-in comment: Correct the 'rules for parsing dimension values' to handle end-of-string properly in the fraction bit.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4312&to=4313