Re: make footnotes appear as tooltips on HTML export?

[Bastien <bzg@altern.org>]

Hi Peter,

Peter Salazar <cycleofsong@gmail.com> writes:

> I had a thought. So, I export most of my org files to both HTML and
> PDF. I was thinking that for HTML, the behavior of putting footnotes
> at the end of the document, as you would for a printed page, is a bit
> outdated. In a printed document, you put the footnotes at the end
> because you have to. But with HTML, it doesn't really make sense to
> make the user click through to the bottom of the document in order to
> discover the footnote content. It would be more in keeping with the
> spirit of hypertext to create a tooltip that the user could hover
> over and view the content instantly inline. 
>
> This is trivial to implement using CSS3:
> http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2012/11/
> how-to-create-a-simple-css3-tooltip/

Trivial but a bit heavy -- at least this is not an option for the
default HTML exporter, which tries to stick to the Old Good Way®.

> and only slightly more complicated using jQuery:
> http://www.chillwebdesigns.co.uk/chilltip
>
> I was thinking about trying to create a way for org-mode to
> automatically create tooltips from footnotes, but I'm a beginner, so
> before I take a crack at it, I thought I would ask: has anyone
> already done this? 
>
> Or, does anyone have ideas about how to easily automate this behavior
> using org export to HTML? 

I don't know, but I think this would make a great entry for the
Org hacks page!  Good luck,

-- 
 Bastien