On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Smylers wrote:
meter in the current spec refers to 'the steps for finding one or two
numbers of a ratio in a string', and the user-agent requirements for
determining the maximum value explicitly allow for the textContent to
contain just one number (and no denominator punctuation character) --
for example if the maximum is specified in the attribute, or if the
default max of 1 is desired:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#meter
So these should be allowed:
meter max=53/meter
meter0.59/meter
However the steps referred to don't, despite their name, seem to have
any way of returning just 1 number:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#ratios
The only places where the steps return something (as distinct from
nothing) are step 8, which returns a number and a denominator character,
and step 14, which returns two numbers.
In particular for a meter like either of the above, the number will be
parsed as number1 in step 4, then steps 6-8 will have no affect (because
there is no denominator character), step 9 will fail to find a second
number, and therefore step 10 will return nothing.
I think that making step 10 instead return number1 will yield the
desired behaviour.
Good catch, thanks. Fixed.
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