8011 2009-10-22 16:59:44 +0000 ECMAScript says the result of ToString on Number is not uniquely determined (in the last digit of s), but HTML5 makes it sound like there's a single best representation of any number. It should explicitly note that the best representation may be any one o 2010-10-04 14:55:39 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other CLOSED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#best-representation-of-the-floating-point-number P3 normal LC 1 contributor ian excors ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 28826 0 contributor 2009-10-22 16:59:44 +0000 Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#best-representation-of-the-floating-point-number Comment: ECMAScript says the result of ToString on Number is not uniquely determined (in the last digit of s), but HTML5 makes it sound like there's a single best representation of any number. It should explicitly note that the best representation may be any one of the multiple strings that ToString might return. (Or define it differently somehow, so the implementation can't return a different string each time you look at the best representation of the same number.) Posted from: 128.232.100.177 28860 1 ian 2009-10-23 07:02:14 +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: Accepted Change Description: see diff given below Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments. 28861 2 contributor 2009-10-23 07:02:42 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r4300. Check-in comment: Handle the way ToString is not fully defined on Number in JS. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4299&to=4300