anyway i'm actually writing the Thoughts On Mastodon post for real. already at 1k words and 6 footnotes and i'm not even out of the introduction. might be a bit until it's done.
some of the footnotes would work better as Asides so i'm genuinely considering writing an article theme that lets me use them that way.
100% agree with this, I love putting marginalia in shit I write and would love to provide some better way of formatting it on here
e.g. the electronic version of "host" by david foster wallace is an essential web text to me
nicky case's nutshell is also something I've been thinking a lot about recently
i am of the firm opinion that the best way to add marginalia to hypertext documents (if columns aren't feasible or don't fit) is the classic tooltip (or clicky popover).
as a magic content creator I'm super used to the style where if I mention a card, you can mouse over its name to see the card, and kinda think that's a good system
worth noting that the hovers in xkeeper and atomicthumbs's posts are entirely inaccessible on mobile. not even long press shows whatever is in there.
one of the many fun things I've discovered in my journey far deeper into front-end development than I had ever gone before is that it was only recently in HTML that you could condition the appearance of a UI element based on whether the user was using a pointing device which embodied the concept of "hovering" or not
before that, you kind of just had to guess, based on how wide their screen was
