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Originally Posted by GeoffC
But you are still relating everything to a page; so where do the footnotes go that allow for all eventualities ?
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Yes, text must be relative to a page, because page exists naturally everywhere.No matter it's screen on iPad, nook, or PC.
ePub is not a book format without pages, I doubt if there's a book without pages.
ePub and all reflowable formats are just giving up predefined page setting and let readers or devices to determine the page size, they are not page irrelevant format, but free paging or multi paging format.
And among all methods of showing notes, footnotes in the bottom of a page is the best one, it's better than endnote and popup. It's not because traditional books use it, the real reason is that it's the easiest one for readers, who need no turning to another page nor clicking.
On devices not fitful for showing footnote(such as too small of screen), it can use other method instead.
And devices should have an option to let user to choose if show or turn off the notes.
But all these have nothing to do with ePub itself, they are things of readers on devices. And now, all ePub readers still need much more improvement. (Even many basic XHTML and CSS features not implemented) They are just like web browsers 15 or 20 years ago.