- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 00:42:56 +0200
- To: Dave Cramer <dauwhe@gmail.com>
- Cc: "www-style\@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Dave Cramer wrote:
> During the Seoul F2F, we discussed the idea of implementing footnotes (and
> running heads) using regions [1], in order to reduce the amount of "magic"
> required to define footnotes. The basic idea is that we have document
> content that needs to move somewhere else. So it seems quite natural to
> write
>
> span.footnote {
> flow-into: footnote;
> }
>
> and then have a "footnote" region at the bottom of the page. Defining that
> region could happen in several ways. GCPM currently uses an @footnote area
> inside @page, and we could just use that along with "flow-from" rather than
> "float: footnote":
>
> @page {
> @footnote { flow-from: footnote }
> }
I'd be reluctant to change the syntax; we have two interoperable
shipping implementations that support the current GCPM syntax.
http://www.wiumlie.no/2014/tests/books/footnotes-ah.pdf
http://www.wiumlie.no/2014/tests/books/footnotes-pr.pdf
http://books.spec.whatwg.org/#footnotes
Cheers,
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Wednesday, 23 July 2014 22:43:30 UTC