[whatwg] Signed Numeric Type NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR

Michael A. Puls II shadow2531 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 26 16:44:29 PDT 2007


On 6/26/07, Simon Pieters <zcorpan at gmail.com> wrote:
> In <http://forums.whatwg.org/viewtopic.php?t=69>, Daren says:
>
> > Upon reading the current work document, I encountered the following:
> >    Unless other specified, if a DOM attribute that is a signed numeric
> >    type is assigned a negative value, a NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR exception must
> >    be raised.Is this correct? To my mind, a "signed type" should be
> > allowed to take a
> > negative value. If not, why have signed types? Does the document mean to
> > say that an *unsigned* type is assigned a negative value the exception
> > must be raised?

Yeh, I was wondering about that also.
<http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2007-June/011714.html>

-- 
Michael



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