Dreamwidth style system discussion

I... think you have identified a shortfall in our Core code. Metadata is a read-only string, so the order of it can't be changed with a function. And, looking at the way the classes are produced, there is no class for each individual list item! The spans that surround the label and the item have classes. But not the li that encloses them both, and is the only thing that could be used to move one bit or another with css.

So, as far as I can see, the current answer is: that's not possible. But I will see about submitting a bug to change that!