- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:54:23 +0100
See: http://forums.whatwg.org/viewtopic.php?t=130 Siemova wrote: > I recently wanted to create an OL in reverse order. In scouring the web > for a solution, I found no simple way to accomplish this, but came > across a number of other people frustrated by the lack of this minor > feature. > The easiest, most obvious solution would be to create an attribute for > Ordered Lists -- let's call it order="" -- which would have two possible > values: ftl (first to last) and ltf (last to first). Very much like the > dir property for text, and, similarly, it would default/degrade to the > normal first-to-last order. > The possible applications for this are numerous, of course: count-downs, > top n lists, having "most recent" items at the top of a reverse-numbered > list, etc. I'm sure anybody can think of times they'd want to do this. > It would be particularly helpful for traditional print (newspapers, > magazines, etc.) converting their content for internet use. Yes, you can > accomplish such things via overloaded tables or CSS hacks, or avoid > using an HTML list at all, but my proposal would make this use of lists > much more convenient, more standardized, and less likely to break. > (A boolean reverse="" attribute or so would also work, I guess.) Siemova then kindly provided some useful pointers: People who are frustrated due to the lack of this feature: http://www.escapedthoughts.com/weblog/geek/P040710badspecs.writeback http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/archives/2003/07/02/prerequisites/ http://www.michaelhanscom.com/eclecticism/2004/05/31/most-naturally-beautiful-women/ http://www.mail-archive.com/pcworks at imagicomm.com/msg07788.html http://forums.biorust.com/html-php-asp-js/5888-reverse-ordered-lists.html http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/11767/why-not http://www.spudart.org/blogs/randomthoughts_comments/P2440_0_3_0/ http://samablog.robsama.com/?m=20070421 Pages that work around the lack of this feature: http://monkey.paularms.com/weblog/html/reverse-ordered-lists http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/18706 http://www.dominoguru.com/pages/06252007031226.html http://tallerthanaveragetales.blogspot.com/2005/12/bit-of-business-from-last-year.html -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
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