Ah, yes, true enough. For a moment I forgot that. Thank you for pointing it out.<br>
<br>
So default would logically be for the numbering to end at 1. Thus, the code<br>
<br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">
< ol reverse><br>
< li>Red</li><br>
< li>Orange</li><br>
< li>Yellow</li><br>
< li>Green</li><br>
< li>Blue</li><br>
< /ol><br></div>
<br>
would display as:<br>
<br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">
5. Red<br>
4. Orange<br>
3. Yellow<br>
2. Green<br>
1. Blue<br></div>
<br>
If you included step="2", it would display this way:<br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">9. Red<br>7. Orange<br>5. Yellow<br>3. Green<br>1. Blue<br></div><br>And, if after that you threw a start="4" onto it:
<br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">4. Red<br>2. Orange<br>0. Yellow<br>-2. Green<br>-4. Blue<br></div><br>I guess that's what I was thinking of when I told Sam I don't see a problem with negative values. But it would only occur in a case where you used a start value which was lower than the step value times the number of list items. Otherwise (to repeat myself) a reversed list would end at 1 by default.
<br><br>Sounds perfectly reasonable to me.<br>
<br>
- Jason<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 23, 2008 8:58 AM, Simon Pieters <<a href="mailto:simonp@opera.com">simonp@opera.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:03:42 +0100, Lachlan Hunt<br><<a href="mailto:lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au">lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div class="Ih2E3d">> Simon Pieters wrote:<br>>> <ol start="100" reverse>
<br>>> The lack of start='' would make the numbers update as the list is<br>>> filled with <li>s. This allows both for simplicitly for short lists and<br>>> correct incremental rendering for large lists.
<br>><br>> No, the lack of an explicit start attribute would make it start from the<br>> default value: 1. It would then count down from there:<br>><br>> 1. A<br>> 0. B<br>> -1. C<br>> -2. D<br>
<br></div>Why? From an authoring perspective I would say that it's more useful to<br>have the last item be 1 by default.<br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br>Simon Pieters<br>Opera Software<br></font></blockquote></div>
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