- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 07:52:12 -0500
Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > Scholarly books sometimes use both footnotes and endnotes for different > things -- footnotes for citations and endnotes for tangential > discussions, or vice versa. I've never seen an HTML document try to make > this distinction, though. > Distinguishing footnotes and endnotes would require a multipage document: footnotes go at the bottom of this page, endnotes at the bottom of some other page. Since HTML5 is primarily about single pages, I suggest calling any such element footnote and not having a separate endnote element. This is a good example of picking fewer over more semantics as discussed in another thread. -- ?Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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