This was was cloned from bug 17573 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2012-06-22 05:11:00 +0000

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 #0   contributor@whatwg.org                          2012-06-22 05:11:16 +0000 
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Comment:
(I apologize in advance if this shows up multiple times, submit kept giving an
error)
The "step" attribute of the Input tag, type="numeric":

The default step for this input type is 1, thereby forcing all input to be
integer only if you leave off the step attribute. I really believe the default
step should be "any" so that
<input type="numeric" name="arg1" />
would accept any number entered like -5, 3.2, 100.23, or -0.0103293 instead of
the current implementation that forces such inputs to accept integers only. I,
as the developer, should take extra actions to force constraints upon the
input as I need them, but should not expect any constraints if I leave them
all out.

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