Re: [css3-lists] Where can the counter() function be used?

Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:

> > So the question is: where can counter() be used?
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-lists/ shows it being used in the
> > content: property, but is that the only place? Should the spec say
> > what it's applicability is?
> 
> It should be usable anywhere - it just returns a string based on the
> value of a counter on that element.  2.1 limited it to 'content',
> but there are more string-valued properties now and in the future
> where it may potentially be useful.

Anywhere?  That sounds just plain silly, user agents would need to
completely revise parsing to handle this.  And for what?

CSS is not a programming language nor should it be.

Regards,

John Daggett