Comments on: Footnotes

By: Beth

Beth — Thu, 26 May 2005 13:39:08 +0000

Hey-I like footnotes, but I’m an academic and I’m used to them. Footnotes are either good or bad depending upon their content–and the relative laziness of the reader. Yours are good-keep up the regular footnotes, and the lazy readers will have to adjust. Reading is not a passive state–it is and should be interactive.

By: platosearwax

platosearwax — Thu, 26 May 2005 09:07:22 +0000

Looks fine on my Firefox. I’m with skippy, though. I am a parenthetical aside addict (as anyone who has ever read what I write would surely know (and I even like double (and triple) parentheses)).

By: Valerae

Valerae — Wed, 25 May 2005 17:51:11 +0000

Works in RSS feed via Thunderbird and nicely in Firefox…good idea.

By: Mr Furious

Mr Furious — Wed, 25 May 2005 13:48:22 +0000

Works like a charm for me in Safari. What’s funny is, I rarely even notice the footnotes as I’m reading. I get to the bottom and then scroll up to see where they were…

So, this doesn’t really help me unless I start noticing the notes as I go.

Pretty cool though.

By: Charles Kuffner

Charles Kuffner — Wed, 25 May 2005 13:26:07 +0000

This has a very interesting effect in my RSS reader. Here’s how the footnoted excerpt looks when I view it in Bloglines in IE:

I’ve received plenty of letters and comments along these lines in response to the religious posts I’ve done in the past and it leads me to this question : Are you also saying those things to your fellow Christians or just smartass atheists like me[1]I’m describing myself here, not accusing anyone of labeling me as such. who to like to take cheap shots at the religious wrong? I’m grateful that there are Christians who are willing to fight the stereotype that conservative fundamentalists represent all of Christianity, but correcting misconceptions is only one piece of the puzzle[2]But it’s an important piece. I often try to be sensitive to these sorts of things, which is why I make an effort to never use the word “Christianity” when referring to the extreme-right without qualifying it with terms like “conservative”, “fundamentalist”, or “lunatic”.. As Bruce Bawer explains in his excellent book “Stealing Jesus”[3]You can read an excerpt of the book here., Christians need to reclaim their religion from the radical right.

Actually, that’s not a completely accurate rendition, since the footnotes are also superscripted in my view. It’s not unreadable, but it is a little weird.

By: skippy

skippy — Wed, 25 May 2005 02:32:16 +0000

we at skippy international prefer the use of paranthetical phrases (which makes us look smarter than we are) for our snide remarks [ed. note: and with 4 different kinds of brackets available on the keyboard, as well as html formatting code, the possibilities are, while not endless, at least myriad], which is not only amusing (at least, to us) but totally without problem, except for one (as if in these days of awol's presidency, a blog formatting question is comparable to any sort of trouble whatsoever), e.g. (whatever that means): often, we forget what we were writing about when we began the sentence (what?).

By: adithemopur

adithemopur — Tue, 24 May 2005 22:23:25 +0000

works but sucks on safari, works ok on firefox. i like the current format and dislike anything that pops up like that immensely, so i may be a teeeensy bit biased

By: E-Rock

E-Rock — Tue, 24 May 2005 22:08:51 +0000

It works and looks good in Firefox on a mac, but I’ve gotta tell you that I prefer the footnotes. If a new user were to come across your site, how would he or she know that those supercripts had an additional function other than pointing you to a footnote? I could be wrong, but it just isn’t really intuitive whereas the footnote idiom is widely recognized.

By: folkbum

folkbum — Tue, 24 May 2005 21:57:02 +0000

It does not work in my primary browser, Safari 1.0.3. But that version is non-CSS compliant in other ways. Looks fine in Firefox, though.

By: Ryan Bayne

Ryan Bayne — Tue, 24 May 2005 21:42:45 +0000

Looks good in firefox, shows up as superscripted text right inline with the main text in the (I think) RSS 2.0 feed.