Using google to compute the log base 2 (lg) = lg(16777271) gave me the answer.
It must have been a 24-bit bitfield. I expect this would have been on RenderLayer, and was for saving space. -eric On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Eric Puidokas <[email protected]> wrote: > I've noticed Safari 3.2.1 has a maximum z-index value of 16777271. It's been > fixed in the nightly to be the max value of a 32-bit signed int > (2147483647). I'm curious if anyone knows where the number 16777271 came > from before the bug was fixed. It doesn't correspond to any data type I know > of. Thanks. > > Eric Puidokas > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev

