[HN Gopher] Give footnotes the boot - alternatives to footnotes ...
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       Give footnotes the boot - alternatives to footnotes on the web
        
       Author : jaffathecake
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2025-07-01 18:55 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | JadeNB wrote:
       | I've always enjoyed the to-me graceful experience of coupling
       | each link to a footnote with a return anchor, so that you get the
       | (to olds like me) familiar experience of footnotes without the
       | pain of navigating to the bottom and then forgetting where you
       | came from. My memory is that Daring Fireball, among many other
       | sites, does this. (I just checked, and it does. Here's the most
       | recent article that uses a footnote:
       | https://daringfireball.net/2025/06/apple_app_store_policy_up....
       | Here's the reference to the footnote:
       | https://daringfireball.net/2025/06/apple_app_store_policy_up....
       | And here's the footnote itself:
       | https://daringfireball.net/2025/06/apple_app_store_policy_up....
       | This does require some special handling if you refer to the same
       | footnote multiple times, but, if you really need to do that, the
       | solution could be as simple as having the second reference be to
       | a new footnote that immediately refers to the old one.)
        
         | jaffathecake wrote:
         | Fwiw this technique is covered in the article, with an example,
         | and the UX issues are discussed.
         | 
         | The simpler solutions presented do not have these issues.
        
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