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Discussion on: Collaborative Annotations with Highlights?

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Ben Halpern

I'm definitely in favor of annotations!

I think they should be comments, as you mentioned we already have those.

I think an extra field or two noting that the comment is an annotation, and then plucking that in the design.

.... So we don't have to do multiple queries, I'd say render all the comments as normal, and then asynchronously apply the various annotations as extra (with the comment still showing up below)

We'd need to have really solid logic for finding the annotation and detecting if there's maybe a small edit by the author and whether it's still "good enough".

@pp what do you think about design?

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Paweł Ludwiczak

I'm all in for annotations, but I'm just not sure if I understand it well-enough to design anything just yet... Some wireframes of the idea would be very useful here.

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Juan Carlos Corona Romero • Edited

We'd need to have really solid logic for finding the annotation and detecting if there's maybe a small edit by the author and whether it's still "good enough".

Yes this is actually one of the big challenges for web annotations, to achieve stable anchoring on mutating content. Fuzzy matching is practical and works well enough from what I've seen.