- From: Frank Boumphrey <bckman@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 13:34:08 -0400
- To: "Robert Rothenberg" <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com>
- Cc: <www-html@w3.org>
>>I'm for a footnote element, but how to create one that's usable on the current browsers? Here's a side note I use with my shakespear.css. It works very well on both Navigator and IE4. .footnote{ width:12pc; font-size:10pt; color:#600000; position:absolute; left:28pc; background-color:#C0C0C0; padding:6pt; border-style:none; border-width:1px; } <DIV CLASS="SPEAKER">THESEUS<DIV CLASS="footnote">Thesus, Duke of Athens, is about to marry Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons. He has just conquered the Amazons in battle.</DIV> </DIV > Frank -----Original Message----- From: Robert Rothenberg <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com> To: Frank Boumphrey <bckman@ix.netcom.com> Cc: www-html@w3.org <www-html@w3.org> Date: Saturday, June 13, 1998 6:13 AM Subject: Re: footnotes On 9 Jun 98, Frank Boumphrey wrote: > Don't forget side notes which are the easiest of all to find and read. Aren't footnotes, endnotes and sidenotes (as well as "pop-up notes" or even somethin using frames) semantically the same thing? So placement (bottom of page, end of document, side of document or as a pop-up window) is a style (CSS/XSL) issue separate from the actual notation element. I'm for a footnote element, but how to create one that's usable on the current browsers? Various ideas come to mind, but they're essentially hacks. A useful notation element would allow for automatic numbering (with separate numbering schemes, since one may want to differentiate between an author's notes and a translator's or editor's notes). One should also be able to reference other notes from within a note. For browser/UA convenience, the notation should be in the text where it occurs... of course that's less usable on current browsers. (It would be less of a problem if something is agreed upon now and implemented in the major browsers real soon, of course.) Rob PS - Why'd I/we overlook this as a paper idea for the Future of HTML Conference?
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