Comments on: Valid replacement for ol type=”a”

By: Russ

Russ — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:54:30 +0000

@Sean Curtis: Thanks heaps!

By: Sean Curtis

Sean Curtis — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:54:25 +0000

Russ – I’d like to echo Simon’s comment about the links for light reading posts. I absorb a heck of a lot of information each day from the 30-40 feeds I follow, but there’s usually 1-2 things in your links that are on feeds that I don’t have. Keep up the good work

By: Russ

Russ — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:08:19 +0000

@patrick: There are times when I agree – when the numbering seems like it is content rather than presentational. A recent complex legal document comes to mind. However, the various options for ordered lists are normally used to enhance the core concept – a series of ordered items.

By: patrick h. lauke

patrick h. lauke — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:49:34 +0000

this is one case where i’m on the fence, to be honest. is the numbering style not part of the content, particularly when you refer to certain points in other parts of the page? say you have set the list to use roman numerals, and in one of the paragraphs you write “see also section XII”. in non-CSS-capable browsers, this would make no sense unless you mentally converted the roman numerals to arabic numbers. even more confusing with complex nested lists that use a mix of letters, numbers, etc. so, is the numbering style not part of the content itself?

By: Russ

Russ — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:39:38 +0000

@Philippe – ooops – thanks

By: Philippe

Philippe — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:35:46 +0000

Russ,
‘depricated’ ? (my spell checker goes crazy :/)
Thx.

By: Russ

Russ — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:57:04 +0000

@Sean: yes, depending on the needs of your content.

@Simon: Yes… it seems a less presentational name would have been better – the example has been updated slighty And thanks for you comments re light reading posts.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:48:29 +0000

I popped in to make the exact same comment as Christian, and I’m glad to see you agree Russ. However, since the purpose of this post is to educate the masses in regards to web standards, surely any example you give should follow best practice.

I think this is the first time I’ve commented here, so it would be remiss of me not to say thanks for your links for light reading posts. They almost always have one or two items of interest I wouldn’t have seen elsewhere.