On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Idan Sofer wrote:
> >Known bug. What's stopping its' resolution is that CSS doesn't define a
> >property for "margin from start of line" but only "margin from
> >left/right". Thus, you cannot give <ol>s and <ul>s a direction-dependant
> >style.
> >
> >
> >
> I wonder how explorer workarounds this issue - I have a feeling it does
> so in fairly kludgy way, that it's either going to break as soon as one
> defines it's own custom stylesheet, or they do that by inverting margin
> left/right according to the text direction(which is a lousy solution to
> the problem if one cares about standards, but not something unexpected)

  A good solution to this will be to add a new (non-standard) method of
setting the margins, say, "margin-start" and "margin-end", and use it in the
default stylesheet, and have margin-left and margin-right override this
non-standard setting.

  Alon

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