- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 22:30:15 +1000
Henri Sivonen wrote: > On Jun 27, 2006, at 09:46, Lachlan Hunt wrote: >> <ol id="part1"> >> ... >> </ol> >> >> <ol id="part2" continue="part1"> >> ... >> </ol> >> >> However, there are several issues that would need to be addressed: > > Hopefully, the issue list adequately demonstrates that the continue > attribute is way too complicated considering that the old start > attribute solves the numbering problem in a very pragmatic way. The start and value attributes certainly do solve the majority of the use cases. They don't semantically link the lists together and they place the responsibility of calculating the starting values upon the authoring/publishing system, rather than the browser. What are the specific use cases that require the lists to be semantically linked? If there are any, could they be addressed using a microformats approach? e.g. Lists with class="split-list" (or any other class name) that share the same title could be defined by a microformat to be linked lists. Perhaps, the class name isn't even required, the matching titles could be sufficient. <ol class="split-list" title="Fruit"> <li>Apples</li> <li>Bananas<li> </ol> <ol class="split-list" title="Fruit" start="3"> <li>Coconuts</li> <li>Dates</li> <li>Figs</li> </ol> -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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