[whatwg] Footnotes, endnotes, sidenotes

Lachlan Hunt lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au
Tue Oct 31 21:42:42 PST 2006


Sander Tekelenburg wrote:
> At 20:35 -0800 UTC, on 2006-10-31, Jonathan Worent wrote:
> 
>> I came across an article by Jesper Tverskov titled The benefits of
>> footnotes in webpages.
>> (http://www.smackthemouse.com/footnotes) It may be of interest.
> 
> IMO the problems with the title attribute he lists are in fact browser
> implementation poverty, not title attribute problems. Same for his arguments
> for "footnotes".

That's true, but they are all real world, practical problems which still 
haven't been solved in the past 10 years and there's no evidence to 
suggest that the situation will change any time soon.

-- 
Lachlan Hunt
http://lachy.id.au/



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