[whatwg] Reverse ordered lists

Krzysztof Żelechowski giecrilj at stegny.2a.pl
Wed Jan 23 10:30:46 PST 2008


Dnia 23-01-2008, Śr o godzinie 17:28 +0000, James Graham pisze:
> The problem that Jonas originally pointed out is that, given browsers do 
> incremental rendering "number of items" is not a known quantity when the list is 
> first rendered. For a pathological example of why this is a problem, imagine a 
> cgi script that just kept spewing out reverse numbered list items, one per 
> second, indefinitely.

This is not specific to lists; any content without incremental rendering
capability would cause this effect.

Chris






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