- From: Michel Fortin <michel.fortin@michelf.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 14:30:39 -0500
Le 6 nov. 2006 ? 12:32, Sander Tekelenburg a ?crit : > Another thing is that whether the annotation should be considered a > footnote, > endnote or whateverelsenote seems to me a presentational issue, so > I'm not > that enthusiastic about calling it a <footnote> element. Why not > simply > <annotation>? You can then allow the author to decide where in the > page, or > in a group of pages, to place the <annotation> element, and use CSS > for the > presentational aspects. (You could allow the same with <foonote>, > but that > name suggest it must only be used for footnotes.) I agree that it's a problem with the name <footnote>. On the other side, <annotation> makes me think of something the user added in the margin, while <footnote> better evoke the complementary relation a footnote has with the text. While I prefer <footnote>, I think both can do fine. Michel Fortin michel.fortin at michelf.com http://www.michelf.com/
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