[annotator-dev] colored notes

Tue Jan 14 15:49:36 UTC 2014

Steph/Rob,

Can I clarify this question and response?  (Rob— forgive me if I botch this up.)

Steph, for context, this arises from a long running discussion w/in the OA community about whose responsibility it is to style and to preserve the styling of annotations—and where in the data model the style of an annotation is recorded and preserved.  

In this case, I think the question is something like this:  From your perspective, is it necessary that there are distinctive colors or other stylings from a pallete and that the same color/effect, with respect to the other colors/effects, is aligned on the same annotation persistently.  In other words, here are some colors, we’re using them to more easily tell annotations and categories of annotations apart from eachother, but any colors will do— just don’t mix them up, and keep using the same one once it’s been picked.

Or is it important that the specific pink color, Pantone #454 (i’m making that up), is applied, and that this same specific color be represented wherever the annotation is shown, and by whatever rendering software.

Rob feel free to correct me if I’ve misstated.

D

On Jan 14, 2014, at 7:41 AM, Steph Skardal <steph at endpoint.com> wrote:

> Hi Rob,
> 
> On 01/14/2014 10:37 AM, Robert Sanderson wrote:
>> Is it the case that the colors, once selected, should persist throughout the lifespan of the annotation?  Thus when the user selects the pinkish color in the screenshots, all other users should also see that same pinkish color.
> 
> For my project, the colors must persist throughout the lifespan of the annotation.
> 
> 
>> 
>> Is this an important, must-have feature, or only something that could be useful in some situations?
>> 
> 
> In my opinion, I think this is a nice-to-have feature, but not necessarily something that needs to be included in the core.
> 
> Steph
> 
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