[annotator-dev] Basic workings

Wed Oct 15 11:16:07 UTC 2014

Thanks, Aron.  That seems to have done the trick.  Much appreciated!

On 15 October 2014 12:01, Aron Carroll <aron at hypothes.is> wrote:

> On 15 Oct 2014, at 11:24, Tim Casling <tcas at burwil.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > What I am struggling with is whether what is should be experiencing out
> of the box is a reasonably sound annotation experience or just a rough
> demo.  I have a feeling it is the former, but I am experiencing the latter,
> I suspect due to misconfiguration and lack of investigation on my part.
>
> Yes annotator should provide everything you need to annotate a document
> out of the box.
>
> > Going back to my multiple annotation issue.  I have a document with
> multiple h1s and if I add an annotation to a h1, it gets stored as /h1[1]
> even if it is the nth h1 in the document. When the /h1[1] annotation is
> applied to the document in the browser, the annotation appears on all h1s.
> If I changed the document to have a singe h1 and multiple h2s, a comment on
> the h1 heading also appears on the h2s and comments on the h2s appear on
> the other h2s.  Same with paragraphs in fact.  The path is just not being
> stored correctly for the annotated element.
> >
> > Could someone just confirm that the paths (XPaths?) that annotator
> creates are normally OK and what I am observing is not expected behaviour?
>
> No, this is not the expected behaviour.
>
> > In the documents I am working with, there is a <div id="main-wrapper">
> that wraps the document <body> and so I have used:
>
> Just want to check, that the #main-wrapper is in fact _inside_ the body
> tag and that it doesn’t wrap the body? Otherwise this is invalid HTML. I
> think most browsers will move the div inside the body, but could lead to
> unexpected behaviour.
>
> > var content=$('#main-wrapper').children().annotator();
> > content.annotator('addPlugin, 'Store', { etc
>
> This will initialise a new annotator on every child element of your
> wrapper. In most use cases you only want one annotator instance per page.
>
> Try moving the wrapper div inside the body tag. An instantiating the
> annotator only on the wrapper.
>
>     var content=$('#main-wrapper').annotator();
>     content.annotator('addPlugin, 'Store', {});
>
> I’ve thrown together the most basic example for you.
> http://jsbin.com/yuyop/1/quiet
>
> Cheers,
> Aron
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