> marginal comment > side note I find that to be disturbingly rare on the web, i.e., asterisks with no footnote do seem to have been popularized by web forms

> marginal comment > side note I find that to be disturbingly rare on the web, i.e., asterisks with no footnote do seem to have been popularized by web forms specifically. Drupal, for example, is like this, leaving the site builder to get creative if they want to add this note somewhere. I don't have a sampling of paper forms handy to see if they, too, suffer from this, though.