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Offline annotation
Support annotating when your network connection becomes interrupted.
Annotation creators
I want to...
- Annotate HTML, PDF and other things when internet is unavailable or intermittent
- Annotate PDFs and other documents that have been saved to my desktop or emailed to me
Publishers
I want to make it easy to review and proof articles by letting people work when they have time to focus (on airplanes, etc).
+1 to this. I think we can achieve this by writing our own annotator-store client plugin, which handles annotation backend operations when the network comes back/disappears. The rest of the H app can be left unchanged.
This is also related to https://github.com/hypothesis/h/issues/703 and https://github.com/hypothesis/h/issues/704.
Network-fault-tolerance shouldn't be confused with "offline support." Offline support enables that, but it's not the sum total of it's value.
hypothesis/h#770 is very different in scope and value than hypothesis/h#703 & hypothesis/h#704.
Network-fault-tolerance is a Good Thing. Offline annotation--even of docs without URLs:exclamation: --is potentially a world unto itself.
Just wanted to clarify.
Offline annotation--even of docs without URLs:exclamation: --is potentially a world unto itself.
Last time I checked, this was blocked by browser security / policy restrictions. It would be great to enable this, though. But even if we don't have that, off-line annotation of on-line resources would be useful, too.
@csillag yeah, it would definitely require an extension or even a straight app of sorts.
It's a good catch that working on local PDFs is really a different animal. I should probably remove it from here.
:+1: for moving non-URL'd document annotation into it's own thing and focusing this one on offline annotation of online resources (things with URLs).
Done-- removed the second of the first two use cases above. Also, removed the reference to local PDF support.
Another request for this: https://hypothesis.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/3214
I'm exploring some options for using hypothes.is in a classroom setting, but the problem is that the internet in there is apparently either totally unusable or intermittent at best. If we do annotations and/or notes offline or with a sparse connection, will it save the annotations and send them back to a server when we're back online?
Another request: https://hypothesis.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/3259
Although that did work with PDF, I’m trying to do something slightly different. I’d like to use it for HTML files on a network dive (or local drive), not a local PDF.
User request: https://hypothesis.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/3303
Curious if you have ever been asked or have pursed the ability to leverage your web annotation tools for intranet sites or stand along HTML files. I am looking for a tool suite that offers page annotation but in a closed environment. Is this possible? Perhaps on an internally hosted server?