Today I Learned: Footnotes in feed readers

There鈥檚 a de facto convention for rendering footnotes in HTML that enables feed readers to give them special treatment, e.g. NetNewsWire and Feedbin display them inline if you select the numbered footnote popup. Simon Willison, referencing Chris Coyier, both with screenshots: I found this code in the NetNewsWire source (it鈥檚 MIT licensed) which runs against elements matching this CSS selector: sup > a[href*='#fn'], sup > div > a[href*='#fn'] So any link with an href attribute containing #fn that is a child of a <sup> (superscript) element. ...

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Feeds

Follow/subscribe (no need to like) RSS feeds for: Here Everything Blog posts Hugo automatically generates RSS/Atom feeds for this site and every section and tag within it.1 Thanks, Hugo! You can add index.xml to the end of any URL ending with a slash on this site to get the corresponding feed address. Elsewhere Mastodon2 What鈥檚 a feed? A web feed3 is a stream, river, or firehose4 of content on a whole website, website section, or social profile, (usually) ordered chronologically, which you can follow alongside other feeds in the feed reader of your choice. So, instead of starting your lunch break by opening a web browser and clicking your bookmarks for your twenty favourite websites (not that there鈥檚 anything wrong with that), you can open your feed reader to see what those twenty (or 200, or 2,000) sites have posted or updated since your last visit. ...

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The old web never went away

I love this footer that Manu has started adding to the bottom of the posts in his RSS feed: Thank you for keeping RSS alive. You鈥檙e awesome. ...

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