[whatwg] HTMLInputElement::valueAsNumber and NaN Infinity

Philip Taylor excors+whatwg at gmail.com
Mon Jan 25 02:10:20 PST 2010


On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:55 AM, TAMURA, Kent <tkent at chromium.org> wrote:
> It seems the current spec doesn't define behavior in a case of setting NaN
> or Infinitiy to HTMLInputElement::valueAsNumber.

http://whatwg.org/html5#float-nan : "Except where otherwise specified,
if an IDL attribute that is a floating point number type (float) is
assigned an Infinity or Not-a-Number (NaN) value, a NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR
exception must be raised."

This case seems to apply for valueAsNumber.

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Philip Taylor
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