Sheldon Rampton wrote:
I have to disagree. Footnotes add an additional layer of difficulty in both paper and web formats, but sometimes they're necessary.
that appear at the bottom of an entire article. Both notating schemes are used in academic and other paper-based publishing contexts, but the only one that could really be used on web pages would be the "end note" scheme, and that's actually what I had in mind.
I see footnotes or end notes in paper-based publishing and in an academic context, but never seen a encyclopedia with end notes.
Don't forget possible targets like publishing Wikipedia in paper-based form. Take a proper paper-based encyclopedia and try to imagine how bad end-notes would look like.
Smurf