- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:58:29 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, Alexis Menard wrote: > > Then come the question, what if I write : > > <h3>Top 100</h3> > <ol reversed="reversed" start="100"> > <li>False Dichotomy</li> > <li>Appeal to Ridicule</li> > <li>Begging the Question (Circular Logic)</li> > <!-- Items omitted here --> > <li value="3">Strawman</li> > <li>Bare Assertion Fallacy</li> > <li>Argumentum ad Ignorantiam</li> > <li>Test</li> > </ol> > > What should be the actual number of "Test" when rendered? Zero. > and what if there are more items after "Test"? -1, -2,...? Yes. The spec says "Each subsequent item in the list has [...] the ordinal value of the previous item [...] minus one" (omitting spec text that doesn't apply here regarding the value="" attribute and the reversed="" attribute -- see the spec for precise rules). > The spec seems to say that it should stop a 1 but then what value I > should display for "Test"? Where does it suggest that you should stop at 1? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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