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Originally Posted by maximus83
Book is epub 3, and the Kobo supports epub 3, and renders some of the footnotes as popups as indicated. And it works in most other books, except those where there's a very large set of foot/end notes to render all at one time. So I think epub version is not the issue here, everything is 3, every apps works (except Kobo, which only works part of the time).
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Just because it is an epub3 doesn't mean it has the footnote references coded properly. And from what you say, I would bet it doesn't. By that, I mean I bet it doesn't use the epub3 specific attributes to the tags to indicate the it a footnote reference and destination. It would be interesting to see how it is done.
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This *may* be by-design behavior as you suggest rather than a bug. However other apps are rendering the specific note, including KOReader, Calibre's built-in reader, FBReader, Moon+, and even Amazon Kindle does similar for their KFX book. So I'd expect it's programmatically do-able, and at least there's some perception that some users would want that behavior. IMHO, it would make sense to enable this behavior to be configurable in device configuration or in user settings. I submitted a detailed bug/feature request to Kobo, will see how they respond.
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It's hard to know if it a bug or by design. Unless the footnote is using the epub3 coding, all of those are using some heuristic for deciding on whether it is a link or a footnote. And they are probably all using different rules. I know I have broken the calibre viewers method in the past with something the kepub renderer was OK with. Without seeing the code in the book and knowing what the rules are, it's hard to know. Reporting it as a bug is the best thing to do. They might come back with a "working as design", they might find a bug in the rules, or they might add a new rule to cover this.