Re: Strip Footnotes when Quoting
Reply #2 –
I know this was discussed before, there are several paths one could choose for this, leaving them there was (at the time) what we did.
This is a kind of a good example, if the text was not there, what would you do, not have the footnote at all? (incomplete post), or make the user click the quote link to navigate back to another thread to see what was said? (bad flow) something other? There are even issues if its within the same thread, if the quoted post is not on the same page, you have to jump back to get it. To me the footnote is part of the quote, so what to do?
Its probably one of those things that you will never get agreement on whats "right" IMO
Re: Strip Footnotes when Quoting
Reply #3 –
What about changing the footnote to text in parenthesis?
Re: Strip Footnotes when Quoting
Reply #4 –
Another option, may be something in between: on normal text put the footnote as usual. Fine. On quotes, keep the number and show the footnote only as a tooltip of the number (on click or on hover).
Re: Strip Footnotes when Quoting
Reply #5 –
Why not have the footnote [#] link back to the original post's footnote area?
Re: Strip Footnotes when Quoting
Reply #6 –
Because a footnote is usually (at least on any book I remember I read) always at the bottom of the same page the reference is in.
Linking to the original post (as written by Spuds above) would potentially mean link to a different page in the same topic, or even a completely different topic. Bringing the reader completely out of the context he is in.
Re: Strip Footnotes when Quoting
Reply #8 –
I dont prefer a link back to original post footnote area on footnote as link to the post is already available via the quote link. I think footnote as tooltip in quote as suggested will be nice.