[Bug 10824] i18n comment 20 : list item marker display and position

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10824

--- Comment #7 from Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> 2010-10-08 17:12:18 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> > Is there reason to believe HTML could change the default behavior safely, even
> > though CSS cannot?
> 
> Yes. The case affected here is fairly rare, and in most cases the current
> rendering is awkward and has to be worked around by use of <span> or <div> tags
> inside the <li>. While I don't have any data for you, it seems likely that
> content-compatibility is not a concern here.
> 
> For CSS, the argument for not changing is that we have full interop on the
> current initial value, and since the behavior is useful for non-list-item
> cases, it does not make sense for us to attempt to change all implementations.

If the "we already have full interop" argument has weight, then surely it also
applies at the HTML level. Or are there implementations that handle <li> in
some way other than the CSS default for list markers?

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Received on Friday, 8 October 2010 17:12:22 UTC