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".
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.
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.
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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?
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.
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.