Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Notes and Annotations: Difference between revisions

** Your second question may be asking several different things.  Annotations may be stored together with a digest (MD5 sum) or cached local copy of the web page or portion of page that they refer to.  Then those can be compared with the rendered page to automatically check that the annotation applies.  If you want to annotate any page represented by some URL (for example, a dynamically generated page), do not associate any content with the annotation.  Annotations can also apply to sets of pages represented by different URLs.  An annotation consists of an HTML document (description) and a generalized link to a list of content on addressed pages.  An element in the list can be specified as a start and end address in the given document, possibly together with a digest of the content.

*** Ok, I get it. However, I think this should be optional (and by optional, I don't mean hiding the annotations; when annotations is turned off, it should be as Firefox didn't have the feature) for the user because having annotations is equivalent to loading two pages for every one, thus hindering some of those who have slower Internet connections or bugging those who do want to see annotations. Another concern that I have is that some webs sites may feel that annotations threaten their businesses. After all, why pay to put your advertisement on a website when you can attach an advertisement to an annotation? Many websites that currently provide free services could begin charging users because they feel that the advertising business could become marginally profitable. Other than that, a good (if not revolutionary) idea. Perhaps, if this becomes successful, users should be able to pick from whom they want annotations from. --[[User:Armaetin|Armaetin]] 16:37, 28 March 2007 (PDT)

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