In terms of HTML, I hope it will be sufficient to provide the semantic markup (this is a note. This is a reference to a note). I don't think it is necessary to be overly constraining about how it is rendered. Different media will have different rendering requirements. Different users will have different needs. I want to right click and be able to say "show me the footnote as a popup". You want it to appear when you hover over the reference. Others will want it in floating content at the side of the page. No reason all of those can't be legitimate. On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Dave Cramer <dauwhe@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > > -- Shane McCarron Managing Director, Applied Testing and Technology, Inc.
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