Re: Proposal for XHTML 2.0: The <footnote> element from Jonas Jørgensen on 2003-01-15 (www-html@w3.org from January 2003)

From: Jonas Jørgensen <jonasj@jonasj.dk>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 10:31:11 +0100
To: www-html@w3.org
Message-ID: <3E252A5F.1040200@jonasj.dk>

Christoph Päper wrote:
>>>>I hereby propose for inclusion in XHTML 2.0 a <footnote> element for
>>>>marking up footnotes.
> 
> This, as well as concerning properties for CSS (e.g. display:footnote), is
> being suggested every once in a while. IIRC it has even ben mentioned in
> either HTML+ or HTML 3.0 draft.

A <fn> element for footnotes was mentioned in the HTML 3.0 draft, but 
unlike my proposal, it was to be placed at the end of the document and 
linked to using fragment identifiers.

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/footnotes.html

/Jonas

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