I am not quite sure whether this should be covered by html at all.
List numbering should be a matter of CSS I think. Using an <ol> only
means that it's items are ordered, not in what way. There is a
difference between ordinal value (which might be specified by the value
attribute of an li element) and things like, say, ranking, score and
numbering
Regards,
Rikkert Koppes
Siemova wrote:
Daniel Glazman wrote:
Usually, the answer is "because nobody uses it anyway...".
Perhaps so, but I certainly wouldn't say nobody wants to use
reverse-ordered lists. I've seen plenty of them across the web
(whether non-HTML or hacked via CSS, tables, etc.), and more than a
few complaints that there's no easy, standardized way to make them.
Besides, designing and implementing such a feature ought to be so easy
for W3C and UA's that the (admittedly minor) benefit would be entirely
worth the small trouble. I'd never claim my proposal to be
earth-shattering, but it's not much less worthwhile than the "start"
attribute. They're both useful in certain
infrequent-but-not-improbable situations, and stay out of the way when
not needed. :)
- Jason (Siemova)
