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> Everything is full of interesting sidebars, but sidebars like caveats just make for boring reading for someone who's presumably there for the title topic. I'
by blakewatson 5y ago
> Everything is full of interesting sidebars, but sidebars like caveats just make for boring reading for someone who's presumably there for the title topic.
I've found that you can have the best of both worlds here and use footnotes for sidebar material. I love reading articles with footnotes (they can be funny and delightful at times) but if someone doesn’t, they can easily ignore them.
- pcmaffey 5y agoOn the web, inline/expandable “footnotes” are totally doable and provide a reader who enjoys sidebars and tangents the optimal ux, without jumping around.
- sa46 5y agoThough it's a rather deep rabbit hole to get Tufte-style side notes [1]. Crafting Interpreters does it quite nicely [2]. [1]: https://www.gwern.net/Sidenotes https://www.gwern.net/Sidenotes [2]: https://craftinginterpreters.com/statements-and-state.html https://craftinginterpreters.com/statements-and-state.html
- pcmaffey 5y agoYeah those are nicely done. I like my own implementation, which overcomes the problem of limited width for the aside. In effect, its like unfolding a longer bit of the article. For example, click on the dotted yellow links here: https://www.pcmaffey.com/roll-your-own-analytics/ https://www.pcmaffey.com/roll-your-own-analytics/
- l-lousy 5y agoYou have one of the most wonderful looking blogs I’ve ever seen!
- chriswarbo 5y agoThe <details> HTML element can do this https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/details https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/de...