- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:03:26 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Elliotte Harold wrote: > > Here's what I would ask: irrespective of presentation issues like when > and where the notes appear on the page, what is the meaning of a details > element and what is the meaning of a hypothetical footnote element? Are > they significantly different? <details> is a UI widget (a "disclosure triangle"). They show a summary of information or widgets that can be expanded to show more details or provide a greater array of controls. title="" is for short annotations. Paragraphs intended to annotate phrases or words (i.e. "footnotes") that are longer than title="" would handle comfortably are subsections that are related to others. For these it seems that inline links to other parts of the document are most appropriate. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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