On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Robert Sanderson <azaroth42@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is there a significant difference between a footnote and an annotation, > other than the positioning? If there is, I'm missing it :) > A footnote could be seen as an annotation by the author of their own document, but it's also an integral part of the original document in a way that feels different than other sorts of annotations. I don't know if that matters for the markup, but I think it's a rather significant use case. > > Wouldn't a hint to the client that a particular area on the page (foot, > side, wherever) was reserved for rendering annotations suffice? > Given the huge variety of ways to display such information, and the long history of some rendering options, I think we need to give authors a fair amount of control over presentation. And that control would be equally useful for separate annotations. I just hope we don't see book endnotes rendered as an infinite scroll! Dave
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