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    superscripted nos beside link text -- what is it?

    I often see, on certain websites, to the right of link-text, a number or
    letter inside angle-brackets, and superscripted (or raised slightly).

    I've never seen anything explaining what these are or what their
    significance or purpose is.

    I've also tried to google on this but of course don't know what they're
    called, so I've always come-up empty-handed on searches.

    Anyone care to share insight on this?


  • John Hosking

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    Re: superscripted nos beside link text -- what is it?

    q[REMOVE-ME]@vex.net wrote:
    I often see, on certain websites, to the right of link-text, a number or
    letter inside angle-brackets, and superscripted (or raised slightly).
    >
    I've never seen anything explaining what these are or what their
    significance or purpose is.
    It sounds like you're just talking about footnotes, but you didn't
    provide a URL to an example of one of these sites, so I can't be sure.
    Footnotes don't have to be to the right of link-text, though, and can be
    links themselves (actually they're the links TO the footnotes).

    See for example the page at
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democra...ited_States%29 ,
    which has lots of footnotes, linked to from the cross-references in the
    text.

    If that's not what you mean, how about an example URL or two?

    --
    John
    Pondering the value of the UIP: http://improve-usenet.org/

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      Re: superscripted nos beside link text -- what is it?

      On Mon, 19 May 2008 09:42:19 +0200,
      John Hosking <John@DELETE.Ho sking.name.INVA LIDwrote:
      >
      If that's not what you mean, how about an example URL or two?
      >
      <http://www.fsf.org/blogs/>

      (see beside "About", "Campaigns" , etc. What are they?

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      • Jukka K. Korpela

        #4
        Re: superscripted nos beside link text -- what is it?

        Scripsit rj{REMOVE]@panix.com:
        On Mon, 19 May 2008 09:42:19 +0200,
        John Hosking <John@DELETE.Ho sking.name.INVA LIDwrote:
        >>
        > If that's not what you mean, how about an example URL or two?
        >>
        <http://www.fsf.org/blogs/>
        >
        (see beside "About", "Campaigns" , etc. What are they?
        Yes, what are they? I see no "superscrip ted nos" there. Are you using
        some odd browser or some browser in an odd state?

        What made you think this was an HTML issue? Did you check the HTML
        source before asking? The links are just something like

        <a href="http://www.fsf.org/about" class=""
        accesskey="v">

        About

        </a>

        which is clueless, with an empty class and with the
        accessibility-hostile accesskey attribute (used very cluelessly by
        assigning the same value to different links), but it does not cause any
        fancy "superscrip ted nos", except perhaps on a fancy browser that
        displays accesskey assignments that way (and that would indeed be odd,
        though possible in this clueless world).

        The links are awfully designed, using nonstandard link color, destroying
        distinction between unvisited and visited links, SHOUTING, THAT IS ALL
        CAPITALS, but this damage has been created with carefully crafted CSS,
        not HTML.

        --
        Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")


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        • John Hosking

          #5
          Re: superscripted nos beside link text -- what is it?

          rj{REMOVE]@panix.com wrote:
          On Mon, 19 May 2008 09:42:19 +0200,
          John Hosking wrote:
          > If that's not what you mean, how about an example URL or two?
          >>
          <http://www.fsf.org/blogs/>
          >
          (see beside "About", "Campaigns" , etc. What are they?
          >
          Well, I'm no wiser.

          I don't see in IE6 or FF2 what you seem to see. Are you perhaps using
          Netscape 4? (The page has references to nine different style sheets,
          which is more than some sites have pages.) At least one style sheet
          purports to support NN4, so maybe you're getting something *special* in
          whatever UA you're using. (The styles also include the obligatory
          font:85%, pixel-based sizing, redundant definitions of repeated
          properties being defined reduntantly, etc. So, no telling.)

          --
          John
          Pondering the value of the UIP: http://improve-usenet.org/

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