#19158 closed enhancement (worksforme)
Fix list numbering on Freedoms admin screen
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| Milestone: | Priority: | normal | |
| Severity: | normal | Version: | 3.2 |
| Component: | Administration | Keywords: | has-patch ui-feedback close |
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Description
The list of 4 freedoms on the Freedoms screen begins with 0, not 1. Issue has existed since that admin screen was introduced in 3.2.
Attached patch fixes Jane's request on original ticket (#17383) to update the original <ol start="0"> code.
Also added "since x.x" to PHPDoc block.
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7 years ago
Replying to SergeyBiryukov:
I thought starting from 0 was deliberate, and Jane's suggestion was about replacing the deprecated
startattribute with CSS. 19158.patch is an attempt to do this.
Why would you start numbering a list with a zero?
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7 years ago
Replying to kpdesign:
Why would you start numbering a list with a zero?
Because the FSF defines the four freedoms that constitute free software as "freedom 0" through "freedom 3", see What is free software?. I assume it starts at 0 because that's where computers start counting from, e.g. the first index of an array in most languages is 0.
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I'm pretty sure that the start attribute is no longer deprecated in HTML5.
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7 years ago
- Type changed from defect (bug) to enhancement
It starts with 0 intentionally, because that is how FSF does it,. As we are liberally quoting them, we are following their system (even though Americans usually don't start from 0 in lists or apartment floors). We absolutely cannot change this to start from 1, and it's not a bug.
I thought starting from 0 was deliberate, and Jane's suggestion was about replacing the deprecated
startattribute with CSS. 19158.patch is an attempt to do this.