Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 08/29/05 00:58

"Morgan" <southclean1@O2mail.ie> wrote:

> Use this style rule.
> ol {list-style-type: lower-alpha;}
>
> which does excatly the same thing as lower-latin!

They are synonymous by the CSS 2.0 spec, and by the current CSS 2.1 draft,
but in practice they don't do the same thing: lower-latin does not work on
IE.

> However its quite important to note that the lower-latin rule is part
> of the CSS2 spec and lower-alpha is for the CSS1 spec even though they
> do the same thing.

No, _that_ is not important.

> So for max compatibility with using CSS you should use the lower-alpha
> rule as most users will have CSS1 in their browsers, whereas it may be
> that less might have the CSS2 spec.

No, the point is that IE does not support lower-latin.

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