It’s all about tangents. No, not those kinds of tangents. We’re talking about the kind where you’ll be sharing a thought and you sort of, umm, go off elsewhere. Some people call them asides, digressions, departures…you get the idea.
We are of the belief that footnotes – at least the ones worth reading – suck. They suck because they are elsewhere, usually far away from the line-of-sight we’re focused on when we read. It would be nice to be able to optionally just glance over and take that brief little detour if we so choose. It’s footnotes on steroids: sidenotes.
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<h1> Unobtrusive Sidenotes</h1>
<p> A Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. <span class=”sidenote” title=”This is the first sidenote. It’s very easy to add sidenotes to your text. You simply wrap your text with a specially marked span tag. Note that the first color is blue. You can change style and color of sidenotes by simply editing the CSS.”>In varius nulla vel nisi.</span> Sed interdum nisi id ligula. Nullam sit amet metus. Mauris facilisis ligula ac magna. Aenean sodales. Aliquam erat volutpat. Etiam vulputate pretium felis. In blandit diam at libero. Sed semper leo vel justo. Tellus a dui. Vestibulum a erat. Quisque condimentum sollicitudin enim. .</p>
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<p> Praesent sed est nec mi <span class=”sidenote” title=”Another neat capability of sidenotes is the ability to embed images within them. Here’s a lovely little image of a duck:<img src=’http://www.arc90.com/_img/duck.jpg’>”>Quisque lorem.</span> elementum congue. Nam est est, aliquam nec, laoreet nec, volutpat a, tortor. Mauris arcu lorem, consectetuer ac, vulputate vitae, fringilla ut, erat. Nulla ultrices. Aenean gravida quam pulvinar nunc. Donec luctus vestibulum justo. Nulla molestie, pede id fringilla semper, urna lectus dapibus nisl, vel feugiat sapien leo nec nulla. Donec nec est vel nisl sollicitudin euismod. Vivamus dictum imperdiet urna. Maecenas malesuada blandit lectus.</p>
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