- From: Dave Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:06:03 +0100
At 12:53 -0600 23/01/08, Siemova wrote: >On Jan 23, 2008 12:18 PM, Dave Singer ><<mailto:singer at apple.com>singer at apple.com> wrote: > >how about assuming that if the source wants it numbered in reverse >order, it knows what it is doing, and can tell the browser what >number to start at? > >it still seems the simplest: an attribute that gives the starting >number (default 1) and an attribute that gives the direction >(increasing or decreasing, default increasing). > > > >True, that's simplest to implement, but why put the onus on the >content author to add things up and specify a start value every >time? Computers are for automating such calculations. If you're >reversing a list, the default value for start shouldn't be 1 >anymore; that should be the ending value, and the starting value >ought to be backwards-engineered from it. This is precisely how a >content creator would expect it to work. > >I'm surprised at you, being from Apple as you are. ;) Isn't the idea >to make using such a function simple and intuitive, even if it has >to be a little more complicated on the back-end? complicated is fine. impossible takes a little longer; if I don't have the end yet, I can't do it right, and the substitutes all seem ugly. -- David Singer Apple/QuickTime -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20080123/138cfcc6/attachment.htm>
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