Not involved in this, but out of curiosity: how would alphabetic lists, or lists with roman numerals handled in this case?
- Roland On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 07:58, Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch> wrote: > On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, Alexis Menard wrote: > > > > Then come the question, what if I write : > > > > <h3>Top 100</h3> > > <ol reversed="reversed" start="100"> > > <li>False Dichotomy</li> > > <li>Appeal to Ridicule</li> > > <li>Begging the Question (Circular Logic)</li> > > <!-- Items omitted here --> > > <li value="3">Strawman</li> > > <li>Bare Assertion Fallacy</li> > > <li>Argumentum ad Ignorantiam</li> > > <li>Test</li> > > </ol> > > > > What should be the actual number of "Test" when rendered? > > Zero. > > > and what if there are more items after "Test"? -1, -2,...? > > Yes. The spec says "Each subsequent item in the list has [...] the ordinal > value of the previous item [...] minus one" (omitting spec text that > doesn't apply here regarding the value="" attribute and the reversed="" > attribute -- see the spec for precise rules). > > > > The spec seems to say that it should stop a 1 but then what value I > > should display for "Test"? > > Where does it suggest that you should stop at 1? > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' >
