[annotator-dev] Annotator for the British Museum?

[Nick Stenning]

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 12:52, johnny jiang <johnny.nan.jiang at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I'm thinking about making some contribution to the project. Especially in
> the social networking area where I personally think annotations could be
> wildly shared and propagated.

Hi Johnny,

I think this is an excellent idea, and I'm particular keen to see this
used in situations where Annotator might bring accountability to (say)
online journalism, advertising, etc.

I've not thought too deeply about it, but I suspect it may be
technically quite challenging to implement for sites where Annotator
is injected using a bookmarklet.

For sites such as OpenShakespeare it would, I think, be relatively
easy to add a plugin (and some appropriate window.location.hash
trickery) to link to a particular annotation on the page. This would
require the cooperation of the OpenShakespeare site admins (which I
think we'll get without too much trouble ;o)...).

The problem with other websites is that there's no way to force
Annotator to load into a page using only a link. Or is there? I'd love
to be proven wrong. The only way I can think you might make some
progess would involve <iframe>s. But even then I bet browser security
restrictions will prevent you from doing anything as dramatic as
running code in the <iframe> context.

I'll be watching with interest. I'd love to spend some time on
Annotator but am pretty busy with other projects at the moment.

Best wishes,
Nick