964529 - support scientific (exponential) notation in CSS properties

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

The CSS Working Group agreed to support scientific notation in CSS properties (not just SVG attributes).

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Attachment: Support scientific (exponential) notation for CSS <number> values, including percentages and dimensions (but not <integer> values).

Resolved for <number> on 2012-08-15:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Aug/0900.html

Resolved for percentages and dimensions in CSS teleconference 2013-04-17:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Apr/0428.html

Comment 2

[Simon Sapin (:SimonSapin)]

Comment on attachment 8366324 [details] [diff] [review]
Support scientific (exponential) notation for CSS <number> values, including percentages and dimensions (but not <integer> values).

Review of attachment 8366324 [details] [diff] [review]:
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Looks good to me.

Comment 3

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

fantasai thinks I should keep the value lists for widows and orphans the same, and also have tests for e notation on things with a .

Comment 4

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/699811c420a2

Comment 5

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

Backed out for crashtest asserts.
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/1e7b2bb3041b

https://tbpl.mozilla.org/php/getParsedLog.php?id=33897873&tree=Mozilla-Inbound
https://tbpl.mozilla.org/php/getParsedLog.php?id=33897837&full=1&branch=mozilla-inbound#error0

Comment 6

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Try&rev=876c97def8d2

Comment 7

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

   https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/56aaeebb639f
   https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/ce3bd1ad8565

Comment 8

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/56aaeebb639f
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/ce3bd1ad8565

Comment 10

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

Doc up-to-date:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/29#CSS
and
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/number
(All other valid cases says that it is a <number> followed by a given unit.

Also I added an example about the scientific notation not being valid in 
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/integer