Not good idea. For one thing, other GML implementations also have UL and OL
and DL, so for consistency from one GML to another, lists should be left this
way.
I also do not think this would make HTML any easier to write or understand,
quite the contrary, I think it would make things less clear. An ordered list
is a distinct abstraction from an unordered list, and the markup used to encode
them should treat them as such. The fact that their visual representations
happen to be similar in a typical browser is NOT a good reason to blur the
structure of an HTML document.
I also think it would be a bad idea to do anything similar to the emphasis
tags. If anything, <B> and <I> and <TT> should be deprecated in favor of the
logical emphasis (phrase) tags such as <EM>, <STRONG> and <SAMP>. One should
not represent semantically different document elements with a common tag!
Michael Johnson
Relay Technology, Inc.