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Originally Posted by eschwartz
That still requires the ereader provides support for this, specifically. The most you can say is that now there is a meta tag to describe it, we might see more devices/apps implement it... but it's not like it used to be hard.
Once again -- popup footnotes are a feature of the renderer, not the format. If the renderer doesn't support popup footnotes, EPUB3 footnotes won't help. Especially for EPUB2. But if the renderer supports regular old link-based footnotes, they can do the same with EPUB2 as well.
There is no real functional gain IMHO.
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You say well, there are tags for pop-up footnotes in epub3. I said it in another post, for example, with Gitden Reader (an android app to read epub3 ebooks) you can have pop-up windows for footnotes. So, pop-up windows not necessarily are device dependant.
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Thanks.
I agree that does look pretty interesting.
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Yes, those properties are very interesting. And you can't get it with epub2.
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Now that I simply think is a bad idea.
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Well, maybe in a couple of months you can think is not a very bad idea
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I don't really have anything against CSS3 per se, it's the idea of javascript in ebooks that gives me the willies. 
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CSS3 is a good thing. You also can have hanging puntuaction and text-alignment (for example text-align-last) not available with epub2. I would bet that once you familiarize yourself with css3 you'll change many of your opinions
Regards
Rubén