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Bug 18283 - Getting unsigned long only returns values in the range 0 to 2^31-1, but setting allows 0 to 2^32-1. Why this assymetry?
Summary: Getting unsigned long only returns values in the range 0 to 2^31-1, but setti...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Silvia Pfeiffer
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-07-18 17:57 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-09-21 10:37 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2012-07-18 17:57:17 UTC
This was was cloned from bug 17705 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2012-07-06 04:57:00 +0000

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 #0   contributor@whatwg.org                          2012-07-06 04:57:30 +0000 
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Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/common-dom-interfaces.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#reflecting-content-attributes-in-idl-attributes
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#reflecting-content-attributes-in-idl-attributes

Comment:
Getting unsigned long only returns values in the range 0 to 2^31-1, but
setting allows 0 to 2^32-1. Why this assymetry?

Posted from: 85.227.152.47 by simonp@opera.com
User agent: Opera/9.80 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7.3; U; en) Presto/2.10.229 Version/11.64
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Comment 1 Silvia Pfeiffer 2012-09-21 10:37:06 UTC
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   Status: Accepted
   Change Description: Patch applied
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/b4e8ac0449fbff7b5728daa34d9f798f47c1d6cd
   Rationale: adopted from WHATWG