[whatwg] double IDL attributes when reflecting content attributes?

[Ian Hickson]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Mounir Lamouri wrote:
> 
> A few months ago all float attributes changed to double attributes [1]. 
> I'm wondering why float IDL attributes reflecting content attributes 
> moved to double attributes given that the content attributes are still 
> following the rules for parsing floating point numbers [2]. So, AFAIUI, 
> these double IDL attributes will be limited to single precision floating 
> point values so why using the double type instead of the float type?
> 
> [1] http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5372&to=5373
> [2] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/common-microsyntaxes.html#rules-for-parsing-floating-point-number-values

The rules for parsing floating point numbers now go to +/- 2^1024, which 
hopefully addresses this problem.

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