I completely agree with you that adding cross-linking to referenced papers would make research hundred of time easier. On the other hand, I think that that would be better served by adding link support to the bibtex parts of pdflatex than switching entirely to HTML5.
As for the rest, I was referring to the literal \footnote command. I'm not sure that the CSS approach is really the best, simply because you don't view webpages the way that you view printed documents. As you scroll down, you'd have footnote bars at the bottom of the screen populating and depopulating depending on which marks just entered or left the screen. That would grow nauseating very quickly. It might be better to include some sort of mouse-over method, but that still feels hacky.
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I completely agree with you that adding cross-linking to referenced papers would make research hundred of time easier. On the other hand, I think that that would be better served by adding link support to the bibtex parts of pdflatex than switching entirely to HTML5.
As for the rest, I was referring to the literal \footnote command. I'm not sure that the CSS approach is really the best, simply because you don't view webpages the way that you view printed documents. As you scroll down, you'd have footnote bars at the bottom of the screen populating and depopulating depending on which marks just entered or left the screen. That would grow nauseating very quickly. It might be better to include some sort of mouse-over method, but that still feels hacky.