Also sprach Douglas Mayle: > As an aside <tongue in cheek/> I noticed the new aside element. Isn't > aside more of a presentational decision? What's the difference > between sidenotes and footnotes other than styling? Would we be > better off combining both use cases into a single element with an > attribute to provide display hinting?
You can describe the presentation of various types of notes in CSS: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-gcpm/#footnotes Indeed, the element itself should't say anything about "foot" or "side" or "end" -- that's a presentational issue. Cheers, -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª [email protected] http://people.opera.com/howcome
