[tei-council] Popups for footnotes in the Guidelines

[Martin Holmes]

On 13-07-29 07:59 PM, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
> 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.

It also enables us to put working links and styled text into notes, and 
lets users select and copy the contents.

Cheers,
Martin

>
> 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
>>