On 11/28/08, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2008/11/28 K. Peachey <p858snake(a)yahoo.com.au>au>:
The stars means there's a tool tip, hover
your mouse over those lines.
What an odd use of an asterisk... usually they refer to a footnote.
That's completely non-intuitive (I was just as confused when I saw
them, but couldn't be bothered to ask about it).
So the mystery has been solved, and good grief! In terms of
accessibility this is about as useful as road-signs printed in
braille. I should not have to (literally) feel around in the
(figurative) dark.
Please fix this or it will only be a matter of time before some nimrod
decides it would be neat to use the same format in article space for
inline reference citations.
(This would follow closely in the footsteps of other efforts to
decrease the visibility of refs, like putting them in a tiny
scrollable box or one collapsed by default, hiding them in invisible
html comments, or at the very bottom of the page beyond the navboxes
and external link-spam, or even on a separate page—I'm not
exaggerating any of this.)
—C.W.