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HTML5 Annotations for Webpages

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22 pointsankurpatel14 comments

When I open in Firefox, I get the error "Your browser does not support HTML5 offline database storage. Please try using Google Chrome or Safari browser for this Web App to work properly." This is a little misleading, because Firefox, Chrome, and IE 10 (but not Safari) all support IndexedDB, which is on track to be the W3C-recommended offline database storage API. Presumably this uses Web SQL Database, which is not a W3C recommendation and never will be because it attempted to standardize SQLite as the only way of implementing a database (http://www.w3.org/TR/webdatabase/).

there is a common trend of making web apps webkit-only and forgetting about everything else

Be careful, some people don't like it when that kind of thing is mentioned.

because a lot of developers are google whores

This looks very similar to the WebKit sticky note example (http://www.webkit.org/demos/sticky-notes/).

Yes but it is an extension of that by using Bookmarklets to annotate webpages instead of just one webpage.

Looks nice, but pretty rough around the edges: things like the hover on the bookmark links flicker, and when you drag notes it selects text as well.

I can't click and drag to select text, it drags the entire note. Maybe you could implement a "handle" area?

Good point

Doesn't work for me in Chrome 18.0.1025.168 m edit: on Win7 Professional

I tried your version of Chrome and it works on a Mac. Maybe you have disabled use of offline HTML database storage.

is there a way to show/hide the notes? i tried but closing them did delete em

There is a hide link in the bottom left corner of each sticky note. To unhide click on the Show Notes link or bookmark if you saved the link to your bookmark bar.

Sticky Notes on the web

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