Bringing annotation to the browser

Hi everyone,

Myself and a few colleagues from the Chrome team have been considering ways
to bring some annotation use cases to the browser by default. This requires
a lot of thought about what kind of  APIs and controls are given to page
authors and users as well as the broader implications on the web ecosystem
(e.g. security, privacy, UI, etc.)

We want to do this in a way that's open and integrates with existing specs
and work on annotations. We've put up a public explainer
<https://github.com/bokand/web-annotations>; there's no concrete proposal
yet, it's all very early stages. There are a few rough ideas though and
explains how we're thinking about the challenges. We'll continue to develop
the ideas there if you'd like to participate or just follow along.

Given this group's interest in annotations, I'd like to invite thoughts and
feedback, particularly if anyone has any experiences with similar efforts
in the past.

Thanks!
David Bokan