- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 19:20:53 -0400
- To: www-html@w3.org
Ordered, Unordered ================== In my mind there is a problem with the current situation. Browsers always interpret "ordered" as "numbered". These do not seem to be the same thing to me at all. An alphabetical or chronological list is ordered, but numbering would imply a numerical significance to the ordering that is perhaps not there. The fact that some things _do_ have a natural numbering is important. But some things do not. Perhaps a new "numerical" list should be created which would indicate that the order of the data had numerical significant. Defintion Lists =============== Another argument in favor of the new markup is the constant abuse of the definition list in order to get a particular formatting. It seems that the proposed LIH tag is a good one, and can be used to replace definition lists. I would support the deprecation of the definition list class. I do not support any of the proposed standardizations of the CLASS attribute (i.e. "before", "left", "onecol", "multicol" and "hide"). First, they are purely formatting. Second, as I understand it, CLASS attributes are not intended to be standardized by the WG. If an author, organization, or industry wants to implement these attributes and define a style sheet for them, I say great! But that is not the responsibility of the WG. Paul Prescod ---------------------------------------------------------- Paul Prescod (mailto:papresco@calum.uwaterloo.ca)
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