Re: [charter] Addressable Ranges?

Hi Doug,

Do you have some prior art/work for this functionality (that could help 
people get a bit deeper understanding of the proposal)?

All - if you have any feedback - both positive/+1 or negative - please 
do speak up by April 25 at the latest.

-Thanks, AB

On 4/18/14 3:45 PM, Doug Schepers wrote:
> Hi, folks–
>
> I'd like to ask for feedback on the notion of adding "addressable 
> ranges" to the WebApps WG charter.
>
> There are a set of use cases for being able to link to a specific 
> passage of text in a document, which has a number of what I consider 
> hard problems:
> * the passage might cross element boundaries
> * someone linking into the document usually doesn't have write access 
> to the document such that they can insert permanent markers into the text
> * documents might change: the passage may have moved, been slightly 
> altered, or even been completely removed
> * many other considerations (including single-page vs. multi-page 
> versions of the same document, near-duplicates of the document at 
> different URLs, etc.)
>
> I bring this to the WebApps WG for a couple reasons:
> * there are related deliverables and discussions already underway, 
> including the new Selections API work from Niwa, the Clipboard API 
> work, and the discussions around a Find API
> * if this is ever going to happen, this is the right community of 
> developers and browser vendors to discuss the different challenges and 
> possibilities
>
> This work might take a while before we consider it ready for serious 
> consideration for implementation and deployment in browsers, but I'd 
> like to start the conversation now so we can keep this in mind while 
> developing related features, and build toward some tangible outcome in 
> the not-too-distant future.
>
> Because finding a solution to this would be a major goal of the 
> proposed Web Annotations WG, it would be nice if this could be a joint 
> deliverable of both groups. While we propose to have the conversation 
> on public-webapps (for the widest and most critical review), the Web 
> Annotations WG will provide an Editor and a Test Lead, and we would 
> prefer to have a co-Editor from WebApps.
>
> Regards-
> -Doug
>

Received on Tuesday, 22 April 2014 13:05:00 UTC