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Okay, can anyone possibly explain this to me? I'm trying to update my website's code to use XHTML 1.0 Strict (rather than Transitional), so I can make it easier to improve things and keep them up-to-date in the future.
My only problem is figuring out what to do with specifying the counter numbers in ordered lists. In several places, I've used the START attribute in OL lists to set a number other than 1 for the start of the list. However, the W3C programmers have so wisely decided to remove the START attribute and make things damn complicated instead.
I've been poring over the W3C recommendations at their site for days, and been desperately searching for some other site that gives some hints that aren't completely unintelligible.
Can anyone help me out here? It's the one thing I haven't gotten to ensure full compliance with the recommendation...
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Charles Capps
We appreciate your concern. It is noted and stupid.
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I'm like 90% sure that you can specify a starting point via CSS, but I'm also 90% sure that no browser implements it correctly, no less IE6.
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Yeah, I was afraid of that part... so basically, you can implement XHTML Strict, but no one will be able to understand it.
I've been working on a way to work around that, but the problem is that I need to have these DIV tags in between to place images in the middle of the page. (I've tried SPAN tags instead, but they're not achieving the same effect that I want...)
To show one example of what I'm trying to achieve, here's the page reproducing the Sector Beta scenario. Scroll down to Question Six, and look at the Assumptions block. It's between two of the questions as a sort of aside. The SPAN tags don't display as a block in the page, so it doesn't look right that way. (Hmm... would using the DISPLAY: BLOCK selector in CSS fix that problem?)
Anyway, maybe there's some other way to get around that problem... *sigh*
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