- From: Grzegorz Staniak <gstaniak@golem.umcs.lublin.pl>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 15:59:49 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
Hello to all, I noticed this "list-style wish-list" thread and I would like to ask for your opinion about an idea brought forward by some people on a Polish newsgroup, namely, a property that would enforce alphabetical order on unordered lists. The idea is to make things easier for the author, who would be able to just prepare a list, and then have it rendered in order by entering a CSS rule into a stylesheet. Possibly, the order could be reversed, too. Obvious difficulties with this approach include the need to store (or retrieve from the system - are there such resources available in operating systems?) tables/arrays specifying the alphabetical order for a large number of languages; delays in document rendering, especially for long lists etc. I'm not sure CSS is the best place for this kind of functionality, since it's more a HTML tree transformation than application of style info. Perhaps browsers could offer a "sort lists" switch somewhere in their configuration. What is your opinion? Is implementation of such a feature faesible, and if it is, is it worth the effort? Myself I think a utility (external or built in an editing environment) is a better idea, if only because of the unevitable delays in the parsing and rendering of HTML documents, but I lack experience necessary to assess the value of such an idea. Thanks, -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | Grzegorz Staniak | Internet 2000 s.c. | | <webmaster@i2000.lublin.pl> | ul. Urocza 18, PL 20-825 Lublin | | | tel./fax +48 (81) 740 22 47 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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