Just looping in David MacDonald, since I referenced his article at the beginning of this whole thing! Hi David! Do me a favor, read through this and then put in your $0.02 (Canadian, of course). On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com> wrote: > 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. > -- Shane McCarron Managing Director, Applied Testing and Technology, Inc.
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