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Concur. I think footnotes are an artifact of dead tree printing; that it has been translated directly to interactive media is ludicrous. I predict its extincti

• palish 18y ago
  If only there were an easy, standard way to pop up a temporary "tooltip window" within a page. At that point, clicking on a footnote would pop up the actual footnote, rather than scrolling the browser to the bottom of the page. (Putting footnotes within the page itself causes the page to be wider, which could potentially make the article harder to read on mobile devices. But at this point, a Javascript "popup window" solution would probably be worse.)
  • whacked_new 18y ago
    The djangobook does it quite nicely (not footnotes but it would work either way).
  • dimitar 18y ago
    <abbr title="it is usually used for abbreviations, but why not?">abbr tag</abbr>
• deleted 18y ago
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