The Big Changes (on both sides)

[Dirk Mueller]

On Don, 09 Jan 2003, David Hyatt wrote:

> <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.

Hmm. true. Although we spent some time on removing html specific hacks from 
the renderin tree :)

The question is if anybody is combining CSS rules using list-style-position 
together with this legacy construct. Because otherwise we could just set a 
non css hint as outside when we encounter a <ol> or a <ul> in the parser. 

Oh well, it probably ends up with the same amount of code. 



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Dirk (received 108 mails today)