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

[Ian Hickson]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2013, Jonathan Watt wrote:
> On 17/01/2013 20:13, Ian Hickson wrote:
> > Fixed, by adding "if there is a number that matches these
> > constraints", which means that the value now ends up at 0 and remains
> > suffering from a step mismatch.
> 
> Regarding this change:
> 
> http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7640&to=7641
> 
> For what it's worth the comment was wrong since it contains "<input type=range
> value=-1 max=2 step=3>" whereas my example was "<input type=range value=-1
> max=1 step=3>". It's only in the latter case (lower max value) that there will
> be a step mismatch.

Oops, I had originally had different numbers and forgot to fix the step 
when I changed the min. Oh well.


> Also, would it be possible in future to have content and formatting 
> changes made in different commits? Several people I've discussed this 
> change with off list have complained that having both types of change in 
> this one commit made it difficult to see what changed, and this is quite 
> a small change (really they should mention that here themselves).

I'll see what I can do, but no guarantees. It's very awkward to make two 
checkins like this back to back.

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