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Originally Posted by ibu
But may be I'm completly wrong with my thoughts. I'm not a developer, as I mentioned.
I just suppose that there are smart ways to implement a pre parsing.
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It's not about being a developer or otherwise: it's simply not worth implementing. Many books don't even have any linked footnotes/endnotes and even when they do the delay is really not that bad in a well designed book.
I reckon the developers are working on more useful/tangible enhancements to unleash on us with their next generation of eReaders.
Maybe a future incarnation eBook will allow linked notes to be defined in the main flow but hidden from display, to be shown in some sort of pop-up window on demand. No caching necessary, no delay on displaying, just a bit of energy expended during parsing and pop-up.
I wonder if any web browsers bother doing any linked page caching?