- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:28:34 -0500
- To: Debi Orton <oradnio@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 23:43 -0400, Debi Orton wrote: [...] > Given that both the start attribute of the ol > element and the value attribute of the li element > were deprecated in HTML 4.01, what is the > compelling case for resurrecting them? It's not clear to me that they ever went away, in the minds of document authors and tool implementors. Perhaps the "Support Existing Content" proposed design principle makes the argument to your satisfaction? "Browsers implementing the new version of HTML should still be able to handle existing content. Ideally, it should be possible to process web documents and applications via an HTML5 implementation even if they were authored against older implementations and do not specifically request HTML5 processing." -- http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/ProposedDesignPrinciples I'll also contribute just a little bit of research... a google search for "HTML reference" yields http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/ , and in there we read... "The deprecated START attribute suggests the starting number for the list and defaults to 1. ... While this attribute is deprecated, there is currently no substitute for it in Cascading Style Sheets." -- http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/lists/ol.html -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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