Karl Berry wrote:
> I am amazed that you can usefully browse the web in something that
> supports only HTML 2.0. Good for you :).
There seem to be two classes of HTML authors:
1) Some design their pages so they can be used with any browser.
These work nicely with x-mosaic; e.g., Altavista is actually nicer to
x-mosaic than to more featureful browsers.
2) Others "optimize" for a specific browser in a very specific
configuration. I usually cannot satisfy these requirements, for
hardware or for security reasons. And anyway, I checked a few of
those pages, and there was nothing useful there (a nice example is
www.bankaustriatour.com; it requires two plugins, but does not deliver
any useful information).
It seems that most people who have something worthwhile to read, try
to make it widely readable. It would be nice if makeinfo, which will
probably be used for many worthwhile documents, would try to
accomodate x-mosaic and other browsers that have this problem (which
apparently comes from libwww). I would hate to have to revert to
texi2html.
Another way to fix this (discussed in
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/1994Sep/0012.html, which,
BTW, claims that "<a name=..> is non-empty in HTML 2.0"), is to leave
the closing </a> away, e.g.,
<li><a name="fn-40">
<p>We use ...
This kludge wouldn't quite fit in style with the paired <p>, though.
Another point, about the <dl> variant: one side benefit would be that
you could provide links back from the footnote to the footnotemark;
e.g.,
<a rel=footnote href="#fn-40" name="fmark-40"><sup>40</sup></a>
...
<dl>
...
<dt><a name="fn-40" href="#fmark40">40.</a>
<dd>We use ...
- anton
