18261 2012-07-18 17:52:33 +0000 This needs to have a locale attribute so that teh "valid floating point number" can be parsed properly for the locale. (eg. "en-US" would have 12345.67 and "de-DE" would have 12345,67) 2012-10-12 23:34:50 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#number-state-(type=number) Clone_WontFixed P3 normal --- 1 contributor eoconnor eoconnor mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 70988 0 contributor 2012-07-18 17:52:33 +0000 This was was cloned from bug 17635 as part of operation convergence. Originally filed: 2012-06-28 18:12:00 +0000 ================================================================================ #0 contributor@whatwg.org 2012-06-28 18:12:36 +0000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/states-of-the-type-attribute.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#number-state-(type=number) Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#number-state-(type=number) Comment: This needs to have a locale attribute so that teh "valid floating point number" can be parsed properly for the locale. (eg. "en-US" would have 12345.67 and "de-DE" would have 12345,67) Posted from: 67.180.233.222 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/536.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1084.52 Safari/536.5 ================================================================================ 76199 1 eoconnor 2012-10-12 23:34:50 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the Editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the Tracker Issue; or you may create a Tracker Issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: No spec change. Rationale: As Ian said in bug 17635 comment 2, > The idea is that the on-the-wire format is not locale-specific but > always in an unambiguous globally machine-readable format defined > basically by ISO. The UI can be locale-specific, but that's up to the > UA. > (There's a separate bug about allowing the page to request specific > locales' UIs, but that's different.)