- From: Alex deVries <adevries@ccs.carleton.ca>
- Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 11:01:12 -0500 (EST)
- To: Michael Johnson <michaelj@relay.relay.com>
- Cc: Multiple recipients of list <www-html@www10.w3.org>
> No, no.. I don't want to see footnote support go away. They are valuable as > a mechanism for allowing spot annotation within a document. With footnotes, > the author does not have to maintain lots of little documents for footnotes, > and when the reader wants to read a footnote, the browser doesn't have to go > out and fetch a URL. I'd really have to agree here. I think that footnotes can be a major step forward. > Besides, I've already gone to the trouble of implementing popup footnotes in > my browser and I do *NOT* want to rip that code out, thank you very much. Interesting. The way I envision a graphical browswer might handle this is similiar to the MS Windows help popups: you click on a word that has a definition, and a nice bubble pops up. - Alex --------------------------------------------------------------------- Alex deVries I I'm so annoyed at that stupid adevries@ccs.carleton.ca I flashing blue N in Netscape Webmaster, Faculty of Engineering I that I've put duct tape http://www.eng.carleton.ca/ad.html I over part of my screen.
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