- From: Dave Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:15:51 +0100
At 15:03 +0100 23/01/08, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
>Simon Pieters wrote:
>> <ol start="100" reverse>
>>
>>The lack of start='' would make the numbers update as the list is
>>filled with <li>s. This allows both for simplicitly for short lists
>>and correct incremental rendering for large lists.
>
>No, the lack of an explicit start attribute would make it start from
>the default value: 1. It would then count down from there:
>
> 1. A
> 0. B
>-1. C
>-2. D
which suggests a pair of orthogonal attributes, as above, the
direction ('order'='increasing' or 'decreasing'??) and the initial
ordinal value (which should be a number, even if the styling asks for
e.g. alphabetic labelling).
perhaps
(from a non-expert)
--
David Singer
Apple/QuickTime
Received on Wednesday, 23 January 2008 06:15:51 UTC