Word-like Auditing
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Although we have comments at the bottom of each article; wouldn't be nice if we could annotate the text of the article itself. For example, I ran across a word in one of the recently published and edited articles where the author chose the word "pure" rather than "poor". Since we all read these articles, why not have a way to highlight a element and make a comment about it. Similar to the comment bubles in Word. The Theory: Once a users posts an annotation only the author of the article and the poster can see the comment. If the author likes the annotation he can choose to "accept" it. Otherwise the Author can edit the article to correct the annotation, or remove it. Lastly, if an article has been through a few revision, the author may not wish to have the article "annotate"-able. So have a system to disable the feature.
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Although we have comments at the bottom of each article; wouldn't be nice if we could annotate the text of the article itself. For example, I ran across a word in one of the recently published and edited articles where the author chose the word "pure" rather than "poor". Since we all read these articles, why not have a way to highlight a element and make a comment about it. Similar to the comment bubles in Word. The Theory: Once a users posts an annotation only the author of the article and the poster can see the comment. If the author likes the annotation he can choose to "accept" it. Otherwise the Author can edit the article to correct the annotation, or remove it. Lastly, if an article has been through a few revision, the author may not wish to have the article "annotate"-able. So have a system to disable the feature.
Not a bad idea. You could have something like an underline/highlight of certain words/sentences, then when you move your mouse over them, a message balloon appears with the comments.
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Although we have comments at the bottom of each article; wouldn't be nice if we could annotate the text of the article itself. For example, I ran across a word in one of the recently published and edited articles where the author chose the word "pure" rather than "poor". Since we all read these articles, why not have a way to highlight a element and make a comment about it. Similar to the comment bubles in Word. The Theory: Once a users posts an annotation only the author of the article and the poster can see the comment. If the author likes the annotation he can choose to "accept" it. Otherwise the Author can edit the article to correct the annotation, or remove it. Lastly, if an article has been through a few revision, the author may not wish to have the article "annotate"-able. So have a system to disable the feature.
I've thought about this a lot and am wondering how the actual mechanism. I guess in Javascript we can get the character position of a selected peice of text, then we could store an annotation as position + Annotation text, then insert the annotations into the actual article text (as pop-up balloons) when the article is displayed. Hmmmmmm.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I've thought about this a lot and am wondering how the actual mechanism. I guess in Javascript we can get the character position of a selected peice of text, then we could store an annotation as position + Annotation text, then insert the annotations into the actual article text (as pop-up balloons) when the article is displayed. Hmmmmmm.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Chris, Why not tag a word in the text of the article. Smilar to hovering over the "Loading a selection" text of http://fxzone.eyeball-design.com/tutorial_ifx03.htm[^]
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Chris, Why not tag a word in the text of the article. Smilar to hovering over the "Loading a selection" text of http://fxzone.eyeball-design.com/tutorial_ifx03.htm[^]
do you need to investigate an online backup[^] company
but this doesn't work in firefox in ie it working :)
it is good to be important but it is more important to be good
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Chris, Why not tag a word in the text of the article. Smilar to hovering over the "Loading a selection" text of http://fxzone.eyeball-design.com/tutorial_ifx03.htm[^]
do you need to investigate an online backup[^] company
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but this doesn't work in firefox in ie it working :)
it is good to be important but it is more important to be good
This is similar to concept art, we can not just steal their source code! But, for the record, good catch.
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I've thought about this a lot and am wondering how the actual mechanism. I guess in Javascript we can get the character position of a selected peice of text, then we could store an annotation as position + Annotation text, then insert the annotations into the actual article text (as pop-up balloons) when the article is displayed. Hmmmmmm.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
This all sounds interesting, but hairy - would you allow annotations of annotations? Maybe a better approach is to let the author mark the article as wiki-able - i.e., allowing others to contribute to it.
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I've thought about this a lot and am wondering how the actual mechanism. I guess in Javascript we can get the character position of a selected peice of text, then we could store an annotation as position + Annotation text, then insert the annotations into the actual article text (as pop-up balloons) when the article is displayed. Hmmmmmm.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Not sure how it is actually accomplished, but most wiki's have a similar type of ability. I think the only thing currently missing is to be able to see who made the changes "in-line", you have to go to the history (or changes, edits, etc.) page to see that type of information.
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