On 9/5/07, FT2 ft2.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
1 - give them numberings that fit in with footnote numberings, so that at least url / cite numbers are not duplicated.
2 - give them a different look, maybe [url-1] ... [url-2] ...
- auto-render all [http://link.com] as <ref>http://link.com</ref>. It's
not perfect but the information's the best there is and its consistent in style.
What I would really like is a way of having proper refs but that are as convenient as URLs. So for example this:
<ref>[http://foo.com Foo Times] 3 September 1968</ref>
could be rendered like:
[web-1]
where "web" is a link to http://foo.com, and 1 is a link to the footnote containing the other text. It's really annoying that we currently have to choose between a link format which is readily explorable, and a referencing format that fits in with other footnotes.
By default perhaps [http:/foo.com] could do something like the above, but that would be a pretty major behaviour change that would break stuff everywhere. For starters not every page has a <references> section...
Steve