[uf-discuss] Annotations/Footnotes

Tantek Ç elik tantek at cs.stanford.edu
Fri May 12 09:09:23 PDT 2006


I believe that Håkon Wium Lie has also looked into footnotes markup quite a
bit, as part of his work on a book microformat, AKA boom.

 http://microformats.org/wiki/book-examples

Tantek


On 5/12/06 8:36 AM, "Scott Reynen" <scott at randomchaos.com> wrote:

> On May 12, 2006, at 9:53 AM, Paul Bryson wrote:
> 
>> I poked around and didn't see any mention of these anywhere.  Is
>> there a defined method to use for footnotes?  This seems closely
>> related to Citations where there appears to be some mention of
>> annotations, but doesn't seem to be exactly correct.
>> 
>> I had a page that I helped someone out with, and I thought I would
>> mark it up properly, but I can't find a way it should be done.
>> http://files.commo.de/annotation-fixed-appear.html
> 
> Here's what I see in the archive:
> 
> On Jan 18, 2006, at 8:49 AM, Ryan Cannon wrote:
>> John Gruber uses Footnote citations on his daringfireball.net,
>> which would probably make a good example of citation markup in the
>> wild:
>> 
>> <p>I&#8217;ve been experimenting with the use of footnotes here on
>> Daring
>> Fireball over the last few months.<sup id='fnref1-2005-07-20'><a
>> href="#fn1-2005-07-20">1</a></sup> ... </p>
>> 
>> <div class="footnote">
>> <hr />
>> <ol>
>> <li id="fn1-2005-07-20">
>> <p>E.g. &#8220;<a href='/2005/03/font_caches_gone_wild'>Font Caches
>> Gone Wild</a>&#8221;.
>> <a href="#fnref1-2005-07-20"  class='footnoteBackLink'  title="Jump
>> back to footnote 1 in the text.">&#8617;</a></p>
>> </li>
>> ...
>> </ol>
>> </div>
> 
> On Jan 24, 2006, at 12:21 PM, Chris Messina wrote:
>> Also spotted in the wild on Alex King's website:
>> 
>> http://www.alexking.org/blog/2006/01/24/email-signature/
>> 
>> Chris
> 
> Is there a semantic difference between annotations and footnotes?
> Might want to take a look at what flickr is doing with photo
> annotations, e.g.:
> 
> http://flickr.com/photos/strangelittlegirl190/144760276/
> 
> Peace,
> Scott
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