Re: [CSS2.1] Position of list-item markers

I've always felt uneasy with the way list markers work. Generally it's a bad
idea to have a bunch of special cases, so it would probably be advantageous
to describe the font marker in another manner.

Essentially the marker is a pseudo-element, right. So lets see if we can
describe it with other CSS that can be more flexible. Once we do that, the
list-style property can just be a shortcut to those properties.

Here's something I tried to loosely replicate the list marker. Works best in
Firefox 3.

li{list-style:none;}
li:before{
  content: 'o';
  display: inline-block;
  position: absolute;
  margin-left: -15px;
  margin-right: 8px;}

<ul>
  <li>text</li>
  <li>text</li>
</ul>

Obviously it's a hacky example, but describing the list marker with other
css properties may help us nail down it's behavior, and make the spec easier
to understand as well as implement.