12305 - Page annotations

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

This is a request to be able to annotate web pages.  It is similar to "digital
graffiti" programs like "Third Voice", but solely on a _personal_ basis.

I suggest this should take the form of a popup, and not allow changes to the
page, although I have read suggestions about allowing presentational changes
like underlining.

Comment 1

[don]

Move to M20.

Comment 2

[don]

Move to "Future" milestone.

Comment 3

[Viswanath Ramachandran]

Since Don has left, Vishy is taking his bugs in bulk, pending reassignment.
thanks,
	Vishy

Comment 4

[Paul Chen]

nav triage team:

Neat, but a minus, marking nsbeta1-

Comment 5

[Blake Ross]

-> aaron, cc evaughan

Comment 6

[Matthew Wilson]

Just to point out the W3C Annotation project at http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/ .
The W3C Amaya browser allows annotations to be stored either locally or on an
appropriate server.

Comment 7

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

This kind of thing can be done quite easily with XLink and XPointer (for XML
documents, at least). Adding dependencies.

Comment 8

[Matthew Wilson]

Annotea client for Mozilla under development at http://annozilla.mozdev.org

Comment 9

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

Matthew, I had a look at the Annonzilla space at mozdev. I did not look at the
code, though. Could you give me (us?) a little explanation of the technology? A
little overall architecture would be nice, and I would be insterested to learn
how you actually attach the annotation markers to the document.

I suspect you attach the markers via DOM (i.e. change the DOM), which can lead
to problems with stylesheets and scripts. But please let me know...

Comment 10

[Aaron Leventhal]

-> Assigning back to reporter.

Comment 11

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

This is not for me - I do Bugzilla work not Mozilla work.

Comment 12

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

Who's in charge of the Mozilla Annotation project? I'll move this to my future
list for now...

Comment 13

[Matthew Wilson]

>I suspect you attach the markers via DOM (i.e. change the DOM), which can lead
>to problems with stylesheets and scripts. But please let me know...

That's right - I couldn't see any other way of displaying the markers. As you
point out, this has serious disadvantages, so it can be switched off.

Comment 14

[Matthew Cline]

*** Bug 153910 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 178741 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 16

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 218193 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 17

[Malx]

IMHO those "duplicates" are not actually duplicates. 
They have different suggestions (please read).

But I agree there should be Add-on for them instead of mozilla-base extending.

Comment 18

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 257049 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 19

[Robert Rothenberg]

I got an email 29 December saying that Bug 61664 (which this bug depends on) has been marked WONTFIX.

How does that affect this bug?

Comment 20

[Philip Chee]

> Bug 61664 (which this bug depends on) has been marked WONTFIX.

This is extension Fodder. In fact there have been several extensions over the years usually as part of some social network site. EXTENSION FODDER=>WONTFIX.