- From: Michel Fortin <michel.fortin@michelf.com>
- Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 12:09:55 -0500
Le 5 nov. 2006 ? 7:52, Elliotte Harold a ?crit : > 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. I agree with that. The distinction between a footnote and an endnote would be better left to the stylesheet. Michel Fortin michel.fortin at michelf.com http://www.michelf.com/
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