Re: Footnotes in HTML

   From: Francois Stragier <stragier@email.enst.fr>

|   For a "long" time, I want to be able to use footnotes in HTML.
| I don't know any easy way to get it, so I propose an extension
| to HTML, that would make it easy to replace footnotes.
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There *was* a footnote proposal in the HTML 3 draft (the FN element).
I agree that it's an important addition; my own preference would be to
call it DIGRESSION or SIDEBAR, rather than POPUP, so as not to imply the
presentation.

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|   By the way, I propose a way to have syntax highlighting in HTML
| (for C, Perl etc.) that would help some programmers who find that
| the <CODE> tag isn't enough.
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I think adding a LANGUAGE attribute to the CODE tag is an excellent idea
(though it occurs to me that the *best* way to handle code might be to
use the OBJECT model and allow the user's normal code browser (emacs or
VisualC++ or whatever) to do the presentation, with the in-line
presentation used as an alternative if no browser is defined.

scott

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Received on Friday, 26 April 1996 10:47:12 UTC