From: Ilmari Heikkinen <kig@...>
Date: 2005-01-21T01:00:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity


On 20.1.2005, at 16:17, James Britt wrote:

> Ideally (and this is a JavaScript/HTML DOM thing I expect)  I would 
> like to be able to associate comments with specific paragraphs.  So 
> that, for example, if there were an online Ruby manual, one could 
> click on a paragraph, get a pop-up thingy, and add a note or 
> correction for that paragraph.  And the HTML would be dynamically 
> modified when rendered to indicate were there were comments.
>
> James
>

Something like this?

http://fhtr.org/kig/dev/selection_test4.html (click on paragraphs)

Works in firefox/moz only, the code and the layout need a stab in the 
head to put them out of their collective misery, but the idea is 
similar to what you're after I think.

Oh and there is no backend there, it's all client-side, nothing gets 
saved.

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Ilmari Heikkinen