[whatwg] Implementation issue: step mismatch handling for <input type=range>

[L. David Baron]

On Thursday 2013-01-17 20:13 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2013, Jonathan Watt wrote:
> > If the step base considered the 'minimum' instead of the 'min' content 
> > attribute, then the step base would be zero, and thus the value would 
> > settle at zero.
> 
> Right, but that would be highly unlikely to make sense, because it would 
> mean the value the author set was an invalid value. You shouldn't be 
> forced to specify the minimum if you're already specifying a step and a 
> value and the default minimum of zero is adequate.

That still seems like a surprising behavior (and it entirely
disables step constraints in a peculiar set of cases).

It would seem better to either:

 * infer the step base from the minimum whenever there is a minimum,
   or

 * when inferring the step base from the default value (the value
   content attribute), apply the minimum and maximum to the default
   value

-David

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