Hi friends! It's been quieter here than I (or the board report I need to write by the weekend) would like it to be. :)
I'd like to propose a path for us to take over the next 6 months to get this incubating project on its feet, collaborating, coding, and creating content. So. Here goes. First, we build a simple highlighter demo for Grade A Fancy web browsers (i.e. the latest and greatest). The demo would: - allow selection of text - keep the highlight in localStorage as a Web Annotation Data Model document - re-anchor the annotation (if possible) on page reload We would use these libraries: - https://github.com/tilgovi/dom-anchor-text-quote - https://github.com/tilgovi/dom-anchor-text-position - https://github.com/tilgovi/dom-anchor-fragment The demo would focus on the "drop in" script tag use case. In the end, this would (deliberately) not do very much. :) The point being, we need to start somewhere, and this somewhere. ;) The actions beyond this deliberately-dumb-demo include: - creating/contributing a Web Extension that uses this code (I have one to contribute) - creating/contributing a Web Annotation Protocol server that these annotations could be published (I've also got code ready to go for this...or we could rewrite in JS to keep things consistent) - making this a useful enough demo to use across all apache.org sites--starting with our own of course So. That's my minimal map. Discuss. ;) Cheers! Benjamin -- http://bigbluehat.com/ http://linkedin.com/in/benjaminyoung
