|I have done a good deal of HTML page development for various different
|reasons, and have found this idea to be useful in many cases. I propose an
|addition to HTML 3.0 that would allow small windows to pop up when the mouse
|is overtop of some keywords, containing some information. Example:
|
|<body>
|This is a new feature of
|<window show="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</window>.
|</body>
|
|OR
|
|<body>
|This is a new feature of
|<a html="HyperText Markup Language" window>HTML</a>.
|</body>
|
|Rendered
|
|This is a new feature of HTML
| \_________________________
| |HyperText Markup Language|
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You're too late, it has already been proposed:-) It now seems likely
that there will be a footnote tag (<FN>) in HTML 3.0, with a suggested
rendering like what you describe. See
<http://www.hpl.hp.co.uk/people/dsr/html3/CoverPage.html> for the
currently proposed syntax. The exact syntax may still change, but the
basic idea is there.
Bert
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