Thread: Reader support of EPUB3, :target, popups
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Old 09-25-2020, 12:53 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by ghmerrill View Post
Is any construct in which there's a bidirectional hyperlink interpreted by the device as a "footnote" and rendered as a popup? That seems a bit goofy. Then something is a footnote (or regarded by "some Kindle devices" as a footnote) if and only if it contains a bidirectional hyperlink? Then I could never have anything with a bidirectional hyperlink which on such a device would not be rendered as a popup? Not exactly ANSI- or ISO-level description of a language/implementation feature.
All good questions.

Getting things to work in the Kindle ecosystem involves some trial and error since the precise details are not documented anywhere. Amazon's publishing guidelines are nothing like a formal specification.
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