On 02/13/2014 02:34 PM, Always Learning wrote:> Firefox used to render
>
> <ol type="a">
> <li>.................</li>
>
> as
>
> a. ...............
>
>
> Now it does not. The HTML 4.1 spec at
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/lists.html#type-values
>
> says use CSS instead.
>
> These
>
> <ol type="a">
> <ol type="A">
> <ol type="i">
>
> used to work in the Centos 5 supplied Firefox. Now OL produce digits
> instead.
>
> http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_ol_type.asp states
>
> "Differences Between HTML 4.01 and HTML5
> The type attribute of the <ol> element is no longer deprecated in
> HTML5."
i.e. no longer deprecated - implies it is either removed and not allowed
or supported any more, or it has moved from being deprecated to valid
.... poor choice of wording.
just beware - w3schools.com is not authoritative on www / html / css -
they hold a useful domain name that google insists on showing at or near
the top of every search.> If something is "deprecated" it is supposed to work until it is
> withdrawn or cancelled.
>
> Is Firefox's inability to render <ol type="a"> a bug or
a very annoying
> irritation especially as I have hundreds of hand-coded pages using it ?
>
> :-(
>