[thelist] Ordered lists WITHOUT fullstop after number?

m riedel matt at ledeir.com
Thu Aug 20 18:12:31 CDT 2009


A thought --

If the list is not dynamic, and never changes, just use a picture.
It's not sexy, It's dumb, it's brute force, and you don't get to show your
coding chops, but it gets the job done 90% of the time.
And it always looks just the way that you/the client want.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ben morrison" <morrison.ben at gmail.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 5:27 AM
Subject: Re: [thelist] Ordered lists WITHOUT fullstop after number?


> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Jason
> Handby<jason.handby at corestar.co.uk> wrote:
>>> However, you will be losing the semantic value of a list that way.
>>> Personally, I would push to have the list stay as it is and advise the
>>> person who wants the full stop removed to not be so anal.
>>
>> Arguably it's anal to care more about the semantic value of a list than 
>> about how a client wants a page to look? I'm just sayin' :-)
>
> I would disagree, but anyway it's possible to keep the semantics and
> hide the list-style-type and add in your own numbering with some css
> positioning.
>
> ben
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