[whatwg] WA1: <meta> attribute requirements

Christoph Päper christoph.paeper at tu-clausthal.de
Tue Jul 19 12:23:14 PDT 2005


Ian Hickson:
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Christoph Päper wrote:
>>  <ol><li>This list item will be replaced by a script.</ol>
>>
>> is not invalid.
> 
> It's also wrong, since that isn't really a list item.

I couldn't think of a concrete example, where I could have filled in 
something more appropriate.

>    <h2>Your todo list:</h2>
>    <ol>
>    </ol>
> 
> ...makes sense to me.

Traditionally empty items have been filled with "N/A", "./.", "-", 
"(empty)", "none" etc. or in this case maybe "nothing to do". It's not 
like HTML was the first system to reuire items in lists or cells in tables.



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