Posted by Davιmon on 04/10/06 11:46
Toby Inkster arranged shapes to form:
> DavΓ©mon wrote:
>
>> the idea of empty lists doesn't seem logical at all to language or
>> document mark-up.
>
> Does make sense to me.
>
> <p>My current to do list is:</p>
> <ul></ul>
>
> conveys more meaning than:
>
> <p>My current to do list is:</p>
>
> which merely seems like an incomplete statement.
Both are incomplete statements.
Surely, in preference you'd have something like
<p>My current to do list is empty!</p>
or even:
<p>My current to do list is:</p>
<ul>
<li>Update to do list</li>
</ul>
;-)
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DavΓ©mon
http://www.nightsoil.co.uk/
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