[whatwg] Plus Signs in Signed Integers
Boris Zbarsky
bzbarsky at MIT.EDU
Thu Jun 18 12:30:31 PDT 2009
Smylers wrote:
> <ol start=H2SO4>
> <li>Acid test
> </ol>
>
> That should cause parsing an integer to abort and so the default of
> start=1 to be used. Opera, Links, and W3M get that right. Konqueror,
> Dillo, and Lynx all also seem to manage the aborting, but use a default
> of zero instead. Firefox parses the "2" out of "H2SO4"
In Firefox, if the string doesn't "look like an integer" we end up
calling some code that crazy-permissive string-to-integer parsing (which
in particular skips over "leading garbage"). We plan to stop doing
that, for what it's worth.
> seemingly using
> the first integer it can find in the attribute, so possibly isn't
> special-casing "+".
There is no special-casing of '+' in the non-crazy-permissive code,
correct. That can be fixed, though.
-Boris
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