Hi Peter, Peter Salazar <cycleofs...@gmail.com> writes:
> I had a thought. So, I export most of my org files to both HTML and > PDF. I was thinking that for HTML, the behavior of putting footnotes > at the end of the document, as you would for a printed page, is a bit > outdated. In a printed document, you put the footnotes at the end > because you have to. But with HTML, it doesn't really make sense to > make the user click through to the bottom of the document in order to > discover the footnote content. It would be more in keeping with the > spirit of hypertext to create a tooltip that the user could hover > over and view the content instantly inline. > > This is trivial to implement using CSS3: > http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2012/11/ > how-to-create-a-simple-css3-tooltip/ Trivial but a bit heavy -- at least this is not an option for the default HTML exporter, which tries to stick to the Old Good Way®. > and only slightly more complicated using jQuery: > http://www.chillwebdesigns.co.uk/chilltip > > I was thinking about trying to create a way for org-mode to > automatically create tooltips from footnotes, but I'm a beginner, so > before I take a crack at it, I thought I would ask: has anyone > already done this? > > Or, does anyone have ideas about how to easily automate this behavior > using org export to HTML? I don't know, but I think this would make a great entry for the Org hacks page! Good luck, -- Bastien
