[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #40031: Consider Adding Web Annotations to WordPress

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#40031: Consider Adding Web Annotations to WordPress
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 Reporter:  MikeSchinkel     |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Comments         |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                   |     Focuses:  ui
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Comment (by dshanske):

 I think this is the wrong approach for WordPress Core in the short term.
 if WordPress wants to start with annotations, how about we enhance the
 comment system to support annotations?

 Annotation to me sounds like a type of comment where you are specifying a
 specific part of a post to comment on. It would therefore not be displayed
 at the bottom, but inline in some fashion.

 In WordPress, remember that comments themselves are a type of
 comment(referring to the comment table). If you look at the current
 WordPress design. While support for custom comment types is a 'blessed'
 task, we still don't have that. We have the built-in ones, and some custom
 ones built without full Core support for registration.

 So, having annotations as a built-in comment type would allow someone to
 annotate a post/page/etc. Now, that's initially a local implementation,
 not a distributed one. But from the perspective of site owners, you should
 always have a local implementation of a feature before you start fetching
 stuff from other sites. A base feature should be built in, and only
 enhanced by an outside site or service.

 Once you have the support for storing and displaying annotations on a
 post, you can add support for someone to create them on the front-end,
 then work on receiving them in a distributed manner.

 I may be on a completely different line of thought than the initial
 proposal, but I feel strongly about local first as a building philosophy.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/40031#comment:3>
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