YAY! Working samples—thanks so much for the opportunity to see it live! I'm assuming that your example is a proof of concept.
Your explicit indicators only show one level. That is: the first level gets one Arabic, the next one Roman, the next one Roman. Your system also combines explicit indicators with indents. I'm hoping to concatenate the level information, much like old-style Usenet/email quoting, which is why I want to alternate Arabic and Alpha, and avoid Roman. Saving space is also very high on my list, so I'd prefer no indents.
I don't—and don't need to—understand the technical implications of <ol> versus <div> implementations. Are user agents smart enough to "know" what level of ordered list a particular item is within so they can concatenate the correct value? Or would the server need to do the calculations? I hope the CSS adepts can chew on that once I post this to suggestions.
I'm planning on letting this simmer for a week, in hopes that potential end-users can ponder whether this would be useful, and suggest alternatives or improvements. I'd appreciate signal-boostage!
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Your explicit indicators only show one level. That is: the first level gets one Arabic, the next one Roman, the next one Roman. Your system also combines explicit indicators with indents. I'm hoping to concatenate the level information, much like old-style Usenet/email quoting, which is why I want to alternate Arabic and Alpha, and avoid Roman. Saving space is also very high on my list, so I'd prefer no indents.
I don't—and don't need to—understand the technical implications of <ol> versus <div> implementations. Are user agents smart enough to "know" what level of ordered list a particular item is within so they can concatenate the correct value? Or would the server need to do the calculations? I hope the CSS adepts can chew on that once I post this to suggestions.
I'm planning on letting this simmer for a week, in hopes that potential end-users can ponder whether this would be useful, and suggest alternatives or improvements. I'd appreciate signal-boostage!