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Comment by TimFogarty | Hacker News Reader

URLs should be displayed for sure, but inline is far too disruptive to smooth reading. I think it would be better done "reference style" if possible. Something similar to how it is done in markdown would be nice:

I get 10 times more traffic from [Google][1] than from [Yahoo][2] or [MSN][3].

[1]: http://google.com/ "Google"

[2]: http://search.yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Search"

[3]: http://search.msn.com/ "MSN Search"

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CSS3 has support for footnotes in the page module.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-gcpm-20111129/#footnotes

It adds a float: footnote; property. From reading that page, I believe this might work, once browser support catches up.

    a::after {
        float: footnote;
        content: attr(href) ' "' attr(title) '"';
    }

There are some other interesting additions:

    title { 
        display: none;
        string-set: title content();
    }
    
    @page { @top-left { content: string(title) }}

This will put the page title in the top left corner of the page margins.

It can also be simplified to "I get 10 times more traffic from Google[1] than from Yahoo[2] or MSN[3]." Note that I removed the square brackets from the URL text.

While this is information-lossy, the context of the link is nearly always clear from the text.

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