Re: (Un)Ordered lists

Simon Pieters wrote:

> The distinction is that <ol> isn't necessarily appropriate just because 
> the items come in a particular order. They may for instance be sorted 
> alphabetically but the order doesn't actually matter. I think the spec 
> needs to be clearer on this point.
> 
> http://www.autisticcuckoo.net/archive.php?id=2007/08/07/lists discusses 
> this issue.

I would be very happy for Autistic Cuckoo's clarification to
appear as a gloss : "A list is an ordered list if changing the
order of the list items change[s] the meaning of the list as a whole."

Philip TAYLOR