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Originally Posted by Hitch
What if--just what if--there ARE no new coding guidelines? Do you think it would be difficult for Amazon, which has more processing power and programmatic brains than almost anyone but the Goog, to make the pop-ups simply display whatever's at the end of the link (she said hopefully....).
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Dear
Hitch,
Of course, one should never underestimate Amazon, but I don't think that heuristics would be robust enough, because footnotes can be formatted in any number of ways and are technically almost indistinguishable from their evil twins--ordinary hyperlinks.
Since Amazon adopted most of HTML5/CSS3 with the introduction of KF8 and also otherwise supports some ePub3-only elements, the best case scenario would be the adoption of
<aside> tags with
epub:type="footnote" attributes.
However, since their god-awful fixed layout flavor also technically supports popups, I wouldn't put it past Amazon to expect book designers to use that horrible syntax for regular KF8 books, too. In the end only time will tell.
Let's hope none of your clients will find out about this new feature, because otherwise they'll probably insist on footnotes in their Kindle books being "popup-ified" post-haste.