No, no.. I don't want to see footnote support go away. They are valuable as
a mechanism for allowing spot annotation within a document. With footnotes,
the author does not have to maintain lots of little documents for footnotes,
and when the reader wants to read a footnote, the browser doesn't have to go
out and fetch a URL.
Besides, I've already gone to the trouble of implementing popup footnotes in
my browser and I do *NOT* want to rip that code out, thank you very much.
A footnote element is a perfectly valid markup component, which other GML
languages usually have. HTML should have it too.
Michael Johnson
Relay Technology, Inc.