Offline annotation

[dwhly]

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).

[gergely-ujvari]

+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.

[csillag]

This is also related to hypothesis/h#703 and hypothesis/h#704.

[BigBlueHat]

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.

[csillag]

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.

[BigBlueHat]

@csillag yeah, it would definitely require an extension or even a straight app of sorts.

[dwhly]

It's a good catch that working on local PDFs is really a different animal. I should probably remove it from here.

[BigBlueHat]

👍 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).

[dwhly]

Done-- removed the second of the first two use cases above. Also, removed the reference to local PDF support.