- From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 18:37:21 -0500 (EST)
- To: W3C HTML <www-html@w3.org>
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
> There is an issue that has bothered me for some time: Sometimes, lists,
> particularily ordered lists, are a natural part of a paragraph. In HTML4,
> P must be closed (or is closed if it is not done explicity) before OL is
> opened.
I think this is part of a bigger problem. Paragraph's can't contain block
level elements. At first this seems to make a lot of sense. But it
doesn't work in many instances.
For example often block level mathematical formulas occur in paragraphs.
If we consider
x + y = z
as such an example, we see that in this case this paragraph is the still
the same one, but we have a block level element in it.
My take on this issue is that HTML isn't perfect for every document,
nor will it ever be. It is just a compromise.
--
Russell O'Connor roconnor@uwaterloo.ca
<http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~roconnor/>
``And truth irreversibly destroys the meaning of its own message''
-- Anindita Dutta, ``The Paradox of Truth, the Truth of Entropy''
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