[tei-council] Popups for footnotes in the Guidelines

[Syd Bauman]

Wow. Nice, Martin. My first reaction is that it is *much* better. I
do appreciate the non-JS fallback, of course. 

A few suggested improvements:
 * slightly wider box
 * allow pressing ESC to dismiss the box
 * maybe clicking back arrow should also dismiss box
 * formatting in the box seems a bit off (hanging indent is a teeny
   bit shy of wide enough for a single digit footnote, and not nearly
   wide enough for a 2 digit footnote

Behavior when a 2nd footnote anchor is clicked on when a box is up is
reasonable, if not optimal. (And probably quite difficult to change,
anyway. :-)


> I've been thinking for a while about a way to improve the current
> handling of footnotes in the web version of the Guidelines; if you
> click on a footnote number, you bounce down to the bottom of the
> page, and then have to bounce back up to continue reading.
> 
> Finally I've got around to a proposed improvement to this. If you go
> here:
> 
> <http://web.uvic.ca/~mholmes/glines_popups/html/>
> 
> you'll find a copy of the Guidelines with new functionality. If you
> go to any chapter with footnotes and click on a footnote link, you
> should see it pop up in a little box on the right of the page. I'd
> be interested in any feedback on this. Notes:
> 
>   - If JavaScript is turned off, the old behaviour remains unchanged,
> so this does not add any extra requirement for JavaScript.
> 
>   - The footnotes themselves are still there at the bottom of the
> page, unchanged; the popup just shows a copy of the target footnote.
> This means the page will still work if printed.
> 
>   - The new functionality is achieved simply by adding two tiny
> files, one JavaScript and one CSS, so it would be easy to add into
> the build process painlessly.
> 
>   - All aspects of the appearance of the popup are up for discussion;
> it currently shows up in a fixed position 25% down from the top of
> the page, on top of the other content, but it's easy to change that.
> 
>   - The little "return" arrow at the end of the footnote still works
> in the popup, so if you lose your place in the original text you can
> still get back to it in the same way,
> 
> You might find it difficult to actually locate a footnote in the
> text, so here are a couple of direct links which scroll to where
> footnote numbers exist:
> 
> <http://web.uvic.ca/~mholmes/glines_popups/html/HD.html#Note42_return>
> <http://web.uvic.ca/~mholmes/glines_popups/html/TC.html#Note78_return>