Re: Annotation & asynch collaboration

Dan Connolly (connolly@pixel.convex.com)
Fri, 20 Nov 92 21:09:59 CST 

Message-Id: <9211210309.AA13411@pixel.convex.com>
To: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: Annotation & asynch collaboration 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 20 Nov 92 21:00:54 PST."
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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 21:09:59 CST
From: Dan Connolly <connolly@pixel.convex.com>


>I've patched httpd to allow remote annotations (an enabling mechanism
>for asynchronous collaboration).  My httpd accepts the following
>command:
>
>ANNOTATE /file/to/annotate?/file/of/annotation?Text describing annotation.

I'd suggest

APPEND /file/to/annotate
<a HREF="file/of/annotation">Text describing annotation</a>
.

The server could impose limits on the length of the annotation,
and it should somehow validate the syntax, I suppose.

Dan