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* @type on <ul>,<ol>,<li> corresponds to the CSS list-style-type property. * HTML5 obsoletes @type on <ol>,<ul>,<li> and instead recommend CSS. The deciion to obsolete @type must have been based on the view that @type is a stylistic attribute. However, it is not logical to view @type as purely stylistic. Consider how, in law texts, one refers to exact places in the text by referring to specific numbers and letters. When using CSS instead of ul@type or ol@type, such enumerated references would not be meaningful in user agents without support for CSS. A consequence of viewing @type as a stylistic attribute must be that even the default decimal enumaration of <ol> elements, as well as the default styling of <ul> elements, is *also* purely stylistic - authors shouldn't rely on them, but instead type the number manually, if the number is significant to the interpreation of the list. There might, however, not be a valid use case for the type attribute on the <li> element. Thus, I do not consider it as a bug that @type is obsoleted on <li>. SOLUTION: @type on <ol>, <ul> is semantic and should be permitted. A separate bug on the permitted syntax will be filed (the HTML4 syntax should be permitted, but CSS syntax should also be permitted)
Might make sense to add this to <ol>. Not sure how it makes sense on <ul> or <li>.
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Checked in as WHATWG revision r5478. Check-in comment: Reintroduce <ol type> as conforming. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5477&to=5478