- From: Melt van Schoor <Hermanus@iafrica.com>
- Date: Thu Jun 27 10:31:40 1996
- To: Paul <pjjvande@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>, "'matthew@tir.com'" <matthew@tir.com>
- Cc: "'www-html@w3.org'" <www-html@w3.org>
At 08:58 AM 96/06/27 +-800, Paul wrote: >This could also be useful for doing footnotes/endnotes. However, just >plain text isn't quite powerful enough in that case. > >Wouldn't a link be sufficient? Then you can show a picture of a "quig", >show pronunciation of the word, etc. If a keyword to tell the browser >that the link is an explanation were added, then the browser could >deal with opening up a little HTML window above the word clicked. > No. We need to save bandwidth (in the case of one large file) or toil (zillions of small files). >With both of these methods, a glossary of terms could easily be created >when the HTML is printed. However, the one with links could be richer. > Typically, A simple word phrase would suffice. In more complex situations (mabey for basic educational purposes?), normal hyperlinks would be acceptable. >I like the idea though. > >- Paul > MvS
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