On 11/28/08, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
2008/11/28 K. Peachey p858snake@yahoo.com.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.