[tei-council] Popups for footnotes in the Guidelines

[Kevin Hawkins]

Nice work.  I will, however, note that even in the current release, both 
Chrome and Firefox will show the text of the footnote once you hover 
over the siglum due to the text being included in @title on <html:a>. 
Still, for users who don't realize this, or are using a browser that 
doesn't render html:a at title, this will be helpful.  --K.

On 7/29/13 9:53 PM, Martin Holmes wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> 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>
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>