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It would be nice for the posts to not lose information when printed out, and link rot may be a problem with URLs. Might use a LaTeX style bibilography where you have [Pet78] in the text which links to the Peters 1978 entry in the bibliography which has the standard biblography details and a hyperlink to the article, where the URL is both written out in text and a hyperlink.
In the footnote style, all footnotes are unique, so you could have the footnote bodies have links back to the text where the initial footnote was, but why bother since browsers have back buttons.
Reading these complaints, I can't help but feel a little smug about my own articles on gwern.net - not only do I have real footnotes, I have floating footnotes to make it even easier, and I usually have fulltext as well. To top it all off, I have an elaborate archiving system just to deal with linkrot.
Smugness is justified. The floating footnotes are a great solution.
The standard way to not lose your place while reading a Web page is to Cmd- or Alt-click a link, opening it in a new tab. But the other problem solved by the floating notes is that hyperlinks are generally opaque as to what's behind them; a reader appreciates the extra context provided by a "title" attribute, your tooltips are an extension of that. What's impressive is that they work equally well on a touchscreen device.
Since as far as I can tell this is done in Js+CSS, we could easily steal your mechanism for LW. Would you object?
ETA: never mind, I've found the source. I'm now feeling bad about using the clichéd phrase "usability nightmare", but this would definitely be a good addition to LW.
Well, I didn't write it in the first place, and I'd be happy to see it on LW.