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Originally Posted by DaleDe
Making a pop up footnote in this case makes more sense since it need not be allowed for in the document pagination.
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Specific to footnotes - Where should footnotes go? end of page, end of chapter, end of book? Is links enough with a return capability?
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Dale
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Yes, popups for footnotes and word definitions would probably be the most workable solution, without getting into the complexities of page reformatting on the reader. However, as I mentioned above, the two CSS properties needed to make a popup work are not required by the OPS spec. And as I have seen, DE did not implement them.
Even links to a footnote may not work. Again, as I have noted elsewhere, DE does not have a "Back" button, or any way to return from a hyperlink jump. The OPS spec doesn't seem to address this directly, although support for the <a> tag is required. It seems an oversight that Adobe would leave out a "Back" button. I have tried three other methods to implement the "Back" button functionality. All of them work in a browser, but one method doesn't work at all in DE and the other two take me to the very beginning of the file, not back to where I came from. I see this a a problem with DE and not with epub itself.