On Jan 23, 2008 12:18 PM, Dave Singer <<a href="mailto:singer@apple.com">singer@apple.com</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
how about assuming that if the source wants it numbered in reverse<br>order, it knows what it is doing, and can tell the browser what<br>number to start at?<br><br>it still seems the simplest: an attribute that gives the starting
<br>number (default 1) and an attribute that gives the direction<br>(increasing or decreasing, default increasing).</blockquote></div><br><br>True, that's simplest to implement, but why put the onus on the content author to add things up and specify a start value every time? Computers are for automating such calculations. If you're reversing a list, the default value for start shouldn't be 1 anymore; that should be the ending value, and the starting value ought to be backwards-engineered from it. This is precisely how a content creator would expect it to work.
<br><br>I'm surprised at you, being from Apple as you are. ;) Isn't the idea to make <i>using</i> such a function simple and intuitive, even if it has to be a little more complicated on the back-end?<br><br>- Jason
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