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Footnotes are a hack for print's limitations and do not belong on the web, which has no such limitations.
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- Jake Archibald Web platform engineer known for work on service workers and browser APIs
Footnotes are a shitty hack built on the limitations of printed media. It's dumb to build on top of those limitations when they don't exist on the web platform.
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↗Give footnotes the bootjakearchibald.com
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