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To be honest, this sounds horrid:

https://www.w3.org/annotation/diagrams/annotation-architectu...

An easy prediction: with wide usage of this, any page that generates a non-trivial amount of traffic will be in such a state as to make reading the annotations pointless at best.

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I disagree. Dealing with large volumes of annotations is a UX challenge, but a very solvable one. Certainly current implementations don't handle pages w/ 10s of thousands or millions of annotations (think: the bible), but neither do traditional comment widgets.

Happy to have a more thoughtful discussion if you're interested.

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