- From: Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.net>
- Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:53:04 -0400
- To: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
Ambrose Li wrote: > 2008/9/3 Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>: > >> Also sprach Joshua Cranmer: >> > given that float: footnote is not defined elsewhere, I am assuming that >> > the draft would need some definition of this for non-paged media, >> > especially screen media. >> >> What should the definition be? >> > > If there is no obvious definition, perhaps it should be something that > can be defined using CSS? > > After all, footnotes on the screen is not a crazy idea; it's just > currently unachievable. > It seems to me like a good default should be to float the footnotes to the end of the innermost block-level element. I don't think that's CSS-specifiable, but using float: to()/ content: from() gets close. -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth
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