- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 09:40:46 -0400
- To: Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@gmail.com>
- CC: public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>, Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>
Hi, Art– There are different approaches that could be taken, but one concrete implementation in JavaScript is from the Hypothes.is Annotator [1]. https://hypothes.is/blog/fuzzy-anchoring/ Regards– –Doug On 4/22/14 9:04 AM, Arthur Barstow wrote: > 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 >> > >
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