Troy A. Griffitts wrote: >>> What don't you like about how HTMLHREF display? Is it the superscripted >>> 'x'? Could we put it in a <span class="footnote_marker"> allowing you >>> to write a CSS rule to display or hide as you would like? >>> >> What I have in mind is that all additional information in the HTML is >> hidden. It actually could be plain text then. >> Some information should be shown while moving the mouse over the words >> in the HTML view or somewhere in another floating information window. >> That would mean making the word a link that has normal display >> attributes. But the data of the link might be something individual. >> I don't kknow at the moment if this can be done by adding a marker and >> using CSS. Actually I didn't thought about using CSS. >> > > From a Windows mobile perspective it would be nice to be able to tap and hold the stylus on a word and get a popup menu with dictionary and Strong's numbers choices. Not sure how to do that on a device without a touch screen? > Have a look at SWORDWeb (click on any word in the text): > > http://crosswire.org/study/passagestudy.jsp > > This is done by hiding the looking information into > getEntryAttributes(). If you change lookup.cpp back to WEBIF output, > you can see how it is done. It obviously doesn't have to operate with > onclick, but could be on a hover over action. I think most of the other > frontends do the similar things while moving the mouse over words. > > I think with footnotes though, it is a little different. The user > doesn't really know where a footnote is, so there should be some marker > in the text which lets them know that further information is available > here. And obviously there should be a way to turn these things on and off. > > Is this helpful, or have I not understood what you desire to do? > > -Troy. > > > Snip...
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