Maybe after having a few months to think about it some better ideas will pop up?
I'd like to see a dedicated way to do footnotes as well. I think it would be worth having the discussion again. Brenton -----Original Message----- From: whatwg-boun...@lists.whatwg.org [mailto:whatwg-boun...@lists.whatwg.org] On Behalf Of Ian Hickson Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 2:11 PM To: Douglas Mayle Cc: wha...@whatwg.org Subject: Re: [whatwg] Footnotes On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Douglas Mayle wrote: > > I'm sorry to bring this up if the subject has been touched on before... > > In perusing the HTML5 standard, I noticed that footnotes are still a > redheaded stepchild in the draft. Given how many workarounds and > hacks are performed to create support for footnotes using standard > elements, is there any reason why there isn't a dedicated mechanism > for footnotes in HTML? The main reason is that we couldn't find any solutions that were especially compelling. A more detailed response to the earlier feedback on the topic is here: http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2008-April/014485.html -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'