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If your article is digital, just make it so that the full citation is revealed on hover (as a "tooltip"), so users don't have to jump back and forth. edit: Too
by esafak 2y ago
If your article is digital, just make it so that the full citation is revealed on hover (as a "tooltip"), so users don't have to jump back and forth.
edit: Tooltips supplement the traditional reference section. They are not to be printed.
- creer 2y agoFair and useful. But then how well do tooltips print? Is the printed version complete? If the tooltip is just the citation or footnote, then the printout is complete.
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- g15jv2dp 2y agoWho cares how tooltips print? I happen to be a (millennial) academic. I cannot remember the last time I actually printed an article.
- creer 2y agoSaved the PDF? Either way, it's great that it works for you - and that's not quite yet everyone. So the author might care.
- dredmorbius 2y agoScreen and print formats can be defined via @media rules. There are also media features which can be specified or queried of a user agent. <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media> Depending on the accuracy of the client, this could well give differing behaviours for desktop, mobile, and print output. HTML is flexible, very few designers seem willing to embrace this.
- self 2y agoAs an aside, since hover doesn't work with touchscreens (phones and tablets), it might be useful to have a typographic note next to the bibkey that shows/hides the popup on touch. What's a good note to use?
- esafak 2y agoI'd use a modal dialog in that case.