I ran into this same problem the other, but forgot to research it. How, then, are we meant to start an ordered list at a number other than 1?
-- Cameron Adams W: www.themaninblue.com --- Nick Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > -------------------------------------------- > > 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 Çelik] [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. > > -------------------------------------------- > > 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 > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for > http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 > http://we04.com/ > Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, > knowledge > To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, > 2004 > > See > http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting > help > ****************************************************** > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
