Pop-Up Footnotes, Asides, and Compatibility

Rand Brittain · 05-05-2018, 04:40 PM

So, I've been working to make ePubs that use the pop-up footnote functionality in EPUB3 and iBooks, and I'm having some difficulty.

It seems like no matter what I do, either the pop-up doesn't work in iBooks, or it refuses to work properly in older readers. I was putting the id for my link targets into the <aside> elements of my footnotes in the final XHTML file, and iBooks likes this, but older, ADE-based readers like Kobo would just follow the link to the front of the XHTML document and stop there.

Then I moved the ID to the paragraph inside the aside tag, and the older readers liked this again, but iBooks stopped responding to the link at all.

Is there a way to make them both happy, so that iBooks will create the pop-up and other readers will just follow the link?

Doitsu · 05-06-2018, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Rand Brittain

Is there a way to make them both happy, so that iBooks will create the pop-up and other readers will just follow the link?

If the book contains only a handful of footnotes, you could achieve compatibility with older versions of RMSDK/ADE by creating separate pages for each aside footnote definition.

Rand Brittain · 05-06-2018, 03:00 PM

There's about 85 of them, but I suppose it's at least an option.

05-05-2018, 04:40 PM	#1
Rand Brittain Bookmaker Posts: 416 Karma: 2143650 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Cybook Opus	Pop-Up Footnotes, Asides, and Compatibility So, I've been working to make ePubs that use the pop-up footnote functionality in EPUB3 and iBooks, and I'm having some difficulty. It seems like no matter what I do, either the pop-up doesn't work in iBooks, or it refuses to work properly in older readers. I was putting the id for my link targets into the <aside> elements of my footnotes in the final XHTML file, and iBooks likes this, but older, ADE-based readers like Kobo would just follow the link to the front of the XHTML document and stop there. Then I moved the ID to the paragraph inside the aside tag, and the older readers liked this again, but iBooks stopped responding to the link at all. Is there a way to make them both happy, so that iBooks will create the pop-up and other readers will just follow the link?

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05-06-2018, 03:00 PM	#3
Rand Brittain Bookmaker Posts: 416 Karma: 2143650 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Cybook Opus	There's about 85 of them, but I suppose it's at least an option.

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