- From: Ambrose Li <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 20:00:01 -0400
- To: howcome@opera.com
- Cc: "Joshua Cranmer" <Pidgeot18@verizon.net>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, www-style <www-style@w3.org>
2008/9/3 Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>: > I don't see any reason for doing it, though. To me, a footnote is a > presentational construct that is sometimes used on paged media and > never in non-paged media. Footnotes don't exist in HTML, nor is there > any plan for it: But why? There have been a number of times in the past that I wanted to create a footnote on a web page, but it couldn't be done and I just use endnotes as a compromise. I'm sure other people will also find the claim that "a footnote is a presentational construct that is never [used] in non-paged media" very odd and illogical. It certainly is not currently achievable in HTML, but "never" in non-paged media? -- cheers, -ambrose The 'net used to be run by smart people; now many sites are run by idiots. So SAD... (Sites that do spam filtering on mails sent to the abuse contact need to be cut off the net...)
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