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March 29, 2005
Adding client-side markup to web pages
Damm - that's cool! But it looks like there's nothing like it for Firefox :-(
And if it had some way of centrally storing the markup metadata (so I could automatically access it from any of the 3 computers I use regularly), then it would probably be enough to sway me back to using IE as my default browser.
Posted by Andy Marks at March 29, 2005 04:55 PM
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It shouldn't be too hard...
Firefox extension to allow addition and rendering of the annotations via Javascript (which has some pretty funky drawing routines). Send the annotations back to a server via HtppXmlRequests, fetch them back.
Quick, write this up as a business plan! If you can link in some concept of tagging, ala Flickr, you'll have it made!
Posted by: Robert Watkins at March 29, 2005 06:47 PM
Of course, Amaya (http://www.w3.org/Amaya/) has had a rudimentary form of this kind of capability for 4+ years. Not that I am suggesting you swap to it as your main browser!
Annotations can be XHTML or SVG (and use RDF, XPointer and XLink) and are either stored locally or on a groupware proxy Annotea (http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/) server so all of your team mates can share your annotations.
Not currently production ready but if you wanted to hack together a Firefox version, it would be a place for ideas.
Posted by: Paul King at April 1, 2005 05:16 PM
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