Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 02/02/06 20:05

Stan McCann <me@stanmccann.us> wrote:

>> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/index/elements.html says that
>> <address> is "information on author", and the DTD comment says the
>> same.
>
> I do not see "information on author" anywhere in that
> specification.

You don't? I mentioned _two_ locations, in the text you quoted.
(Actually, the DTD comment appears both in the description of the
element and in the DTD itself, which is part of the spec, too.)

> How does an audio reader render lists?

It depends. Some early speech-based user agents read the items of a
<ul> list in succession as if they were all one paragraph (and for this
reason, some people recommended using <ol> instead), but modern
software works better and reads it in some "itemized" way.

> Does it say "bullett" for each list item?

Probably not. But it may pause between the items.

> Most modern browsers will display CSS mostly
> correct.

Well, that's quite an exaggeration. After all, IE is by far the most
common browser, and it has a poor CSS implementation. If you mean just
list bullet suppression, then you're right - up to a point.

> So, if a ul is semantically correct, the fact that
> bulletts are the default display is irrelavent, a very very small
> number of people might see the address list presented with
> bulletts.

Drop at least one of the "very" words. Think about text-based browsers
like Lynx and Links, which ignore style sheets. Think about the
possibility of switching off style sheets or using user style sheets to
override author style sheets.

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