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Haha. Granted I didn't check his footnotes, but that's pretty lazy writing, and feels more like he corrected it as an afterthought rather than editing his core
by smallerfish 4y ago
Haha. Granted I didn't check his footnotes, but that's pretty lazy writing, and feels more like he corrected it as an afterthought rather than editing his core text.
- ghaff 4y agoI sort of agree but one of my general regrets with web publishing vs. pages on paper (or even a formatted PDF) is that footnotes which bulletproof, add nuance, provide parenthetical detail, etc. don't work nearly as well because you can't just glance at them.
- eru 4y agoGwern does a good job with them on his website.
- ghaff 4y agoHe does but you're still clicking through rather than casually glancing at the bottom of a page as you would be a book or paper. Footnotes (or endnotes) are fine on the web (or Kindle, etc.) for reference that most people won't read. They're less good for parenthetical text.
- eru 4y agoOh, I had his sidenotes in mind. See https://www.gwern.net/Sidenotes https://www.gwern.net/Sidenotes Though for some reason, the sidenotes don't show up on my browser for his site at the moment?..
- gwern 4y agoThey should still be working as ever. You may have changed the zoom level or possibly we changed some dimension slightly and your screen is no longer wide enough to provide adequate space for sidenotes. (And I'd point out that even when you don't have sidenotes, the footnotes are still better than usual because they pop up on hover - no click necessary unless you disabled JS entirely, at which point /shrug, you've indicated you don't want fancy frills so enjoy your old-fashioned 1995-style footnote hyperlinks.)
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