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Originally Posted by jbenny
Yes, footnotes need further investigation. I haven't tried doing footnotes yet, but was trying something similar, which didn't work. I wanted to use CSS to provide a popup window that gave you a definition when you either hovered or clicked on a particular word. It worked great on a web browser, but not in Digital Editions. After reading the OPS spec more carefully, I discovered that "position" and "z-index" are allowed, but not required in the OPS spec. It is a shame that they left these out, as doing word lookup and even popup footnotes could easily be done this way.
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Some of the sample files used a separate XML file and it displayed a little cross next to a word to signify that there's a footnote (clicking on the footnote displayed the xml file with the footnotes). I do understand that real footnote support is a lot more complicated to display for a reflowable format, but that's one of those key features that we need if we'd like to display e-books like real books.