Monday, 14 December 2015

Re: Ordered list problem

Hi Harriet,

In message <0f6ea13155.harriet@blueyonder.co.uk>
Harriet Bazley <lists@orange.wingsandbeaks.org.uk> wrote:

> On 13 Dec 2015 as I do recall,
> Geoffrey Baxendale wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have just been updating a website which I look after and I have
> > noticed that Netsurf appears to ignore the tag <type=a>. The effect is
> > to make all the ordered lists to be numbered (1,2,3...) rather than
> > lettered (a,b,c etc.)
>
> It has always been like this (Netsurf doesn't support the <start= n> tag
> either). I think this is one of the things that was scheduled to be
> reimplemented in a completely different way and has been in a stopgap state
> for a long time now, since the issue is basically a cosmetic one: it can
> give some odd results, though. (Especially when the document refers back
> internally to numbered entries and you realise that Netsurf has completely
> renumbered everything!)
>
Thanks Harriet. I'll stop trying to find the error in my code. ;-)

TTFN
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Geoff.
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