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Originally Posted by charleski
But since it's trivial to program a popup window or a separately-scrolled region at the bottom of the page, there's no reason for ereaders to attempt to emulate the clumsy practices needed in print.
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A pop-up window, however, negates the key benefit of a footnote over an end-note, which is the ability to see both the footnote, and the text referring to it, simultaneously.