- From: Michael Johnson <michaelj@relay.relay.com>
- Date: Thu, 03 Nov 94 07:34:39 EST
- To: www-html@www0.cern.ch (HTML discussion list)
>The primary reason to create a new tag rather than use <FOOTNOTE> and/or ><MARGIN> is to keep the symantic meanings intact. A definition is not >neccessarily a footnote. I can imagine a browser which displays (or >at least prints) footnotes as real footnotes and definitions in a glossary >at the end of the document. Ah, well in that case perhaps what you should be contemplating is creating a glossary document and then adding a <LINK> to your regular document, along the lines of: <LINK href="my-glossary-document" rel="UseGlossary"> An HTML3 browser is supposed to use this to try to resolve glossary queries in the document. The reader makes glossary queries by, for example, double clicking on a word, or selecting a word with a pointer drag and then applying a glossary action from a pulldown menu to the selected word. You could then use the <DFN> tag to semantically mark the words that actually appear in the glossary, so that the reader would know which words a glossary query would succeed for. Michael Johnson Relay Technology, Inc.
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