Re: Bringing annotation to the browser

On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 8:23 AM geppy <me@geppy.im> wrote:

> The Sidebar API is, in many ways, the ideal primitive for enabling this.
>

> provide a way to draw lines and highlights in an overlay on top of a page
> without modifying its DOM.
>
>
> Google Chrome's Gleam API proposal
> <https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/extensions/proposed-changes/apis-under-development/gleam-api>
> (for Web extensions) was aimed squarely at this.
>
> Mozilla's "Firefox Screenshots
> <https://github.com/mozilla-services/screenshots>" took a very practical
> approach to implementing a selector creation user interface.  It
> essentially involved a privileged extension, which could itself become a
> Web Extension API for creating selectors.  With work, rendering annotations
> could also be implemented in the same API (and with the same approach).
>
> (Firefox Screenshots appears to have been killed by market economics,
> unrelated to the merits of the project or its approach.)
>


Thank you, I hadn't seen these! This is useful context.