From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2005-01-21T07:27:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity

Ilmari Heikkinen wrote:
> 
> 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)

Yes, that's a good approximation of what I had in mind.

Some years back, when IE5 was cutting edge, I wrote some nice 
JavaScript+ASP stuff to allow virtual post-it notes on a web page.

I believe that the DHTML capabilities of Firefox/Mozilla are now such 
that writing a cross-browser version, even with just basic features, 
would be quite do-abale.  Add in the "back by popular demand" 
XmlHttpRequest object, and server persistence would be a snap.



James