- From: Brad Kemper <brkemper.comcast@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 10:13:46 -0700
- To: howcome@opera.com
- Cc: leslie.brown@evidian.com, www-style <www-style@w3.org>
On Sep 4, 2008, at 1:22 AM, Håkon Wium Lie wrote: > > Also sprach leslie.brown@evidian.com: > >>> What would you like that footnote to look like on a web page? >> >> Pop it up when I hover the mouse over the footnote cue. > > Right, this makes sense. It's not a footnote, but it's a perfectly > reasonable presentation of related information. The disucssion we > should be having is how to create popups in CSS. > > Example XX in the current draft borrows some markup from the HTML5 > specification: > > Sorry, <span title="This is, of course, a lie.">we're closing for > lunch</span>. > > Which, in most browsers, will result in a popup of some kind. So, it > is doable today. To create a more general solution that also works for > XML, perhaps we should have a way of saying "treat this text as a > title attribute" in CSS. > > -h&kon > Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª > howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome > The presentation could also be as a sidenote, similar to what the sidenotes look like on this page: http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/#p265
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