ul tip leaves me hanging

This tip is new to me...
  http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/unordered-lists

Most of the tips are topics that I'm familiar
with, and when I read them, it's just to review
that they're getting the point across effectively.

In this case, it seems to be a topic that I'm
not familiar with. And now that I have read it,
I'm still not sure what I was supposed to learn.

Is there a way to rephrase the slug as an action?
"Unordered lists: more than just bullets" doesn't
seem parallel with "If You Pick One Color, Pick Them All".

"Not only does it improve the readability of your HTML code, it also
applies meaning to content which would otherwise have none."

What sort of meaning? Sounds kinda philosophical and ivory-tower.
Is there any software out there that makes the meaning observable?
"User Agents which scan only your content (and ignore your visual CSS),
like text browsers, text-to-speech browsers, and even search-bots can
understand your list organization and proceed to render (or interpret)
it as such." Got any examples? Which search engines grok <ul>?

It might be nice to see an example of the right way, followed by
that example done the wrong way. (always put the right answer
first, in case an impatient reader stops reading.)


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Received on Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:08:59 UTC