Perhaps you all have considered this already, but I think there’s a lot to like about sidenotes over footnotes, especially on the web (e.g. footnotes aren’t always in sight at the bottom of a physical page).
Both the hover-over and sidenotes on gwern.net are pure JS, and require no modifications to the original Markdown or generated HTML footnotes; they just run and modify the appearance clientside and degrade to the original footnotes if JS is disabled. (Obormot says feel free to contact him if you want/need any help integrating stuff.) For more on sidenotes, see https://www.gwern.net/Sidenotes
Nice!
Perhaps you all have considered this already, but I think there’s a lot to like about sidenotes over footnotes, especially on the web (e.g. footnotes aren’t always in sight at the bottom of a physical page).
Sidenotes are great!
Inspiring example: https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition
Or hover-over/click-to-pop-up footnotes.
I agree, and I’ll pass this feedback to the tech team (though Markdown having built-in footnote support was key for this feature’s existence).
Both the hover-over and sidenotes on gwern.net are pure JS, and require no modifications to the original Markdown or generated HTML footnotes; they just run and modify the appearance clientside and degrade to the original footnotes if JS is disabled. (Obormot says feel free to contact him if you want/need any help integrating stuff.) For more on sidenotes, see https://www.gwern.net/Sidenotes