Re: FOOTNOTE element

> No, no.. I don't want to see footnote support go away. They are valuable as
> a mechanism for allowing spot annotation within a document. With footnotes,
> the author does not have to maintain lots of little documents for footnotes,
> and when the reader wants to read a footnote, the browser doesn't have to go
> out and fetch a URL.

I'd really have to agree here.  I think that footnotes can be a major 
step forward.

> Besides, I've already gone to the trouble of implementing popup footnotes in
> my browser and I do *NOT* want to rip that code out, thank you very much.

Interesting.  The way I envision a graphical browswer might handle this 
is similiar to the MS Windows help popups:  you click on a word that has 
a definition, and a nice bubble pops up.

- Alex

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Received on Thursday, 9 March 1995 11:03:26 UTC