[IxDA Discuss] UI design for digital books with extensive footnotes

[Peter Bagnall]

> . In this case, it would be better to display the floating
> windows when a reference is clicked, and have a close button on the
> window. This would also  negate the need to provide a control that
> turns the feature on and off.

I did just that here for almost exactly that reason....

http://www.iraqbodycount.org/editorial/defended/2.1.php

The footnotes are dotted underlined links, which show a popup layer.  
In this case the slight oddity is that some of the popups just  
contain a single link, which means efffectively you have to click  
twice to access that link. (we had reasons for this, which I won't go  
into here). But you can get the general idea - see if it works for you!

Cheers
--Pete


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