[WSG]
    start attribute deprecated in XHTML 1.0 Strict and up.

Fri, 17 Sep 2004 00:35:30 -0700 

I was looking at some data of the form:

AQUACULTURE
��������������� 1. Scientists: Salmon Hatchery Policy Flawed (USA)
��������������� 2. Fish Farms Seen Harming Dive Tourism (Malta)
��������������� 3. Escaped Farmed Salmon Find Home (Alaska)
COASTAL DEVELOPMENT
��������������� 4. Mayor Casts Doubt Over Magnetic Is Report (Great Barrier Reef)
��������������� 5. Hope for Maldives Rises from the Sea (Maldives)

...and looking at the how of doing that; <ol start="4"> type stuff and thought I'd check the specs as to how valid this is going forward. As usual the W3C docs were of little immediate help so a Google search turned up this:

http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/markdown-discuss/2004-March/ 000255.html

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1.  The Transitional doctypes for HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 support
    the `start` attribute for `<ol>`, and a `value` attribute for
    `<li>`. You can use them like this:

        <ol start="10">
        <li>Ten</li>
        <li>Eleven</li>
        <li value="20">Twenty</li>
        </ol>

    which renders like this:

        10. Ten
        11. Eleven
        20. Twenty

2.  The W3C deprecated both of these attributes; thus they're
    invalid in the Strict doctypes for HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1.0.

    A lot of experts consider this deprecation, especially
    the `value` attribute, a very bad decision on the part of
    the W3C. For example, [Tantek �elik] [1].

    [1]: http://tantek.com/log/2003/01.html#L20030102t0602

    The basic idea behind attribute deprecation is that
    *presentational* attributes have been deprecated, because
    one should use CSS for presentation styling. But the `value`
    attribute for list items is not presentational, it specifies
    important information about the meaning of the list.

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Now I'm not using XHTML higher than 1.0 Transitional but I thought this was noteworthy ...if it is correct. For any of you using XHTML 1.0 Strict and up, it is possibly something that may influence your decision making.

Nick
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