- From: Michel Fortin <michel.fortin@michelf.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 07:43:37 -0500
Just an update on my previous footnote markup proposal. H?kon Wium Lie told me in a private email that it wouldn't work alongside progressive rendering in CSS. From what I understand, it only applies to paged media however. The problem is that you can't lay out a page until all the footnotes for that page have been found; if footnotes are all at the end of the document -- as in my backward compatible proposal -- then no page with a footnote can be rendered until the footnote content, at the end of the document, has been parsed. So, for progressive rendering on paged media, footnote's content would need to occur either before the footnote mark in the text, or at the same place. Looks like we're in a dead end: it's either progressive rendering or a backward compatible markup. - - - To draw a parallel, Ian suggested some days ago making <tfoot> legal when at the end of <table>. This has similar implications: it breaks progressive rendering on paged media when the table spans on more than one page (assuming the footer is shown at the bottom of each page, that is). So I'm going to ask: where do we stand on progressive rendering for paged media? and what is the current state of HTML in this regard? Michel Fortin michel.fortin at michelf.com http://www.michelf.com/
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