Re: Footnotez in quotez (is weird). Reply #15 – September 24, 2016, 11:03:26 pm How would that work on touchscreen? I'm just thinking that the time you're really likely to want them inline is when you're on a tiny screen, but phones don't do hover. Seems to me that if you want them inline it would make more sense for them to be click-activated. This is frankly often less bother even on desktop too, because you don't get crap popping up when you don't want it.
Re: Footnotez in quotez (is weird). Reply #16 – September 25, 2016, 05:46:07 am Quote from: Antechinus – September 24, 2016, 11:03:26 pmI'm just thinking that the time you're really likely to want them inline is when you're on a tiny screen,Not really: if you have the text appear on hover/click, you don't have to jump around in the page just to see a note.I have always wanted to put them appear on hover, I gave it a try a couple of times, but then forgot.Quote from: live627 – September 24, 2016, 10:05:48 pmQuoteJust wondering if we should also have them shown on hover over which would allow you to read the footnote in a somewhat less obtrusive way.I think that's how MediaWiki does it.MW has "everything": footnotes at the bottom of the page (for desktop and mobile), on hover for desktop, on click for mobile.
Re: Footnotez in quotez (is weird). Reply #17 – September 25, 2016, 04:42:49 pm The MW way seems like overkill to me, at least for a forum. Doing them on hover or click should be easy enough (with my preference being click, obviously).
Re: Footnotez in quotez (is weird). Reply #18 – September 26, 2016, 12:16:39 am Only a popup then... you don't think people'd get confused?
Re: Footnotez in quotez (is weird). Reply #19 – September 26, 2016, 04:35:28 pm Meh. People are always getting confused anyway. Why worry?
Re: Footnotez in quotez (is weird). Reply #20 – September 26, 2016, 09:40:49 pm because less confusion means less work for those helping support the software.
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