Re: The benefits of footnotes in webpages

David Woolley wrote:

> In XHTML 2.0, you can replace the a element by a sup element, so I 
> wouldn't abandon it that soon.  It is borderline presentational; 
> there are other uses of sup that I would argue are less presentational,
> as they form universal conventions in mathematics, chemistry, etc.

...and there's the related discussion on the W3C HTML mailing list about 
sub/sup, which splintered off from that about samp,kbd,var

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2006Aug/0149.html

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