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In clause 14.3.8 Lists, http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/rendering.html#lists there are rules like dir dl { list-style-type: circle; } This is pointless because list-style-type does not affect a dl element or its children, and for any inner list that might be affected, there is a rule that applies to the inner list, so inheritance does not apply. So this would have an effect only if invalid markup, with li as a child of dl, were used or (rather abnormally) display: list-item were set on the dl or its child.
Oops.
Checked in as WHATWG revision r7957. Check-in comment: Wow, long-standing typo with the selector rules for nested list bullets http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7956&to=7957