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Subject: Re: [whatwg] [HTML5] Named start values for lists?
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, dolphinling wrote:
HTML5 brings back the |start| attribute on ordered lists. This allows a
list to semantically start with a number other than one. It seems like
the major use case for this is to split lists up, so that a single list
is marked by multiple ols.
Would
dolphinling wrote:
HTML5 brings back the |start| attribute on ordered lists. This allows a
list to semantically start with a number other than one. It seems like
the major use case for this is to split lists up, so that a single list
is marked by multiple ols.
Would it therefore make sense
dolphinling wrote:
As for how this would interact with CSS Counters... It appears counters
in CSS 3 are insufficient even to handle the already-in-spec start= and
value= attributes. That should probably be taken up with the CSS WG.
I've mailed www-style (not with any ideas, just bringing it
Lachlan Hunt wrote:
dolphinling wrote:
HTML5 brings back the |start| attribute on ordered lists. This allows
a list to semantically start with a number other than one. It seems
like the major use case for this is to split lists up, so that a
single list is marked by multiple ols.
Other
On Jun 27, 2006, at 09:46, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
I recall similar suggestions made on www-html in the past.
Something like this could be useful:
ol id=part1
liItem 1/li
liItem 2/li
liItem 3/li
/ol
ol id=part2 continue=part1
liItem 4/li
liItem 5/li
liItem 6/li
/ol
However, there
Henri Sivonen wrote:
On Jun 27, 2006, at 09:46, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
ol id=part1
...
/ol
ol id=part2 continue=part1
...
/ol
However, there are several issues that would need to be addressed:
Hopefully, the issue list adequately demonstrates that the continue
attribute is way too complicated
James Graham wrote:
* Would implementations have difficulty with re-numbering list items in
linked lists, when a new li is dynamically inserted into a previous
list?
I would hope not since that's one of the big attractions of this model.
Perhaps not so much for browsers that natively
dolphinling wrote:
HTML5 brings back the |start| attribute on ordered lists. This allows a
list to semantically start with a number other than one. It seems like
the major use case for this is to split lists up, so that a single list
is marked by multiple ols.
Other use cases include the
Quoting Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
However, there are several issues that would need to be addressed:
[List of good points]
* How does it interact with CSS counters.
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HTML5 brings back the |start| attribute on ordered lists. This allows a
list to semantically start with a number other than one. It seems like
the major use case for this is to split lists up, so that a single list
is marked by multiple ols.
Would it therefore make sense to allow named start
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