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> Document to annotate - The document you intend to annotate (must be .txt file)

Any thoughts on supporting additional file formats? I'm actually interested in annotating HTML files / web pages. It would be great if I could browse for a local HTML file or enter in a URL and the HTML content would be rendered for it to be annotated using the entities.

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For sure! I've just tested it locally and HTML annotation is possible with only a few minor changes. I've just been overly restrictive by limiting it to text files (primarily to avoid PDFs and MS docs that have some additional challenges). Will deploy the updates later today.

Love the idea of being able to enter a URL to retrieve the HTML for annotation.

Thanks for your quick reply, looking forward to this!

The basic HTML annotation is live :) Will be incorporating syntax highlighting & HTML rendering via URL soon.

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