The Big Changes (on both sides)

[David Hyatt]

On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 11:59 PM, Dirk Mueller wrote:

> - Reworked the list-style-position quirk for orphaned <li>s to not use
> CSS.
>
> why?
>

<li><ol><li>foo

If you change the orphaned outer <li> to have a list-style-position of 
inside, then the <li> inside the <ol> inherits that inside position 
(improperly).  Gecko solved this by implementing a bunch of style rules 
(using descendant selectors).  We thought it was cleaner to just hack 
it at the rendering level, thus ensuring that intermediate orphaned 
<li>s never have any effect on the inheritance of the 
list-style-position property.

dave