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Originally Posted by mramosch
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Can anyone confirm whether this bug was introduced in a newer firmware and actually did work on older devices like Jackie mentioned back in 2023, or if it was just an oversight on his part and it actually didn’t work back then eigther.
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Firstly, I'm a she, not a he.
I can't be sure but I suspect the back-link has always worked this way, i.e. gives an unwanted pop-up on the back-link if the original text and the footnote are in the same file. It may be that most people (including me
) never noticed because either:
- they usually only read the pop-up text and rarely press the [See more] button to see the actual fully styled footnote/endnote.
- they *do* press [See more] but don't press the back-link to go back because if the scrubber pane is opened (or already open) at the bottom of the screen it has a [Back to page n] button which they press instead.
I don't think there's any way to guarantee that pop-up footnotes/endnotes work "perfectly" for any definition of "perfect". All you can do is give yourself the best chance of them working "well enough". I don't know whether non-Kobo ereaders are more foolproof or whether every brand has it's own arcane "rules".
Other Kobo quirks I've seen are:
- Pop-ups may not work if your id="..." attributes contain characters other than [a-z][0-9], i.e. avoid dots, hyphens, underscores.
- If your Endnotes page also includes a chapter sub-heading before each group of endnotes for that chapter, don't be surprised if the pop-up text for the last endnote of a chapter also appends the text of the chapter sub-heading following it.