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A little of topic but the reference as a huge list at the bottom is forgivable for print media, but for interactive media, there is no reason for such inefficie
by omeid2 8y ago
A little of topic but the reference as a huge list at the bottom is forgivable for print media, but for interactive media, there is no reason for such inefficient method that requires one to click on the reference only to find yourself skimming through a list trying to remember what the number was and once you have found it, great, now you have to find your way back to where you were reading!
Wikipedia's recent reference links are a great of example of how to do reference right.
- codetrotter 8y agoIn Safari on iOS you can use the back button of the browser to jump back to where you were on the page before you clicked the link to the reference. You should see if the browser you are using does that as well.
- avhon1 8y agoThis also works in pretty much every other browser I know of.
- codetrotter 8y agoAbsolutely :) Named anchors in a page have been around for a long time and I recall that going back from a page internal link would bring you to the place in the page that you were for as long as I can remember. Would be interesting to know which browser was the first to keep track of scroll position for history entries. Mosaic was before my time but I wouldn’t be completely surprised to learn that even it would store scroll position.