- From: Tina Holmboe <tina@greytower.net>
- Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 14:15:05 +0200
- To: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 01:03:26PM +0100, David Woolley wrote:
> What you seem to be saying is that a typical novel should be represented
> as OL in HTML because the order of the chapters and paragraphs either
> represents the forward progression of time or represents a deliberate
What I am saying is that there exist no other mechanism in HTML, or
for that matter in XHTML, for /explicitly/ stating that order is
significant except OL*.
Once that is said we can, of course, argue the topic in absurdum.
> distortion of that order that is fundamental to the way the story is
> told.
>
> There might be cases where Hn is reasonable in a list, but I think we
> are talking about chapters, not conventional lists, in the concrete case
> in question.
My argument apply to the generic case, which I got the impression
you argued against.
* Even that can be disputed based on the HTML specification.
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