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Re:Annotation is now a web standard by mathoff on Sunday February 26, 2017 @03:10PM (#13739518)
"The Publisher receives a notification for any annotations made on their site which are explicitly published publicly. There are two proposed mechanisms for this:

1) a client-side event which informs the page of the annotation's publication URLs;

2) a server-side notification sent to the publisher's “well-known” contact address.

Either or both of these mechanisms may be used, each with its own use cases." https://www.w3.org/annotation/diagrams/annotation-architectu...

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Re:Annotation is now a web standard by gaxun on Sunday February 26, 2017 @03:14PM (#13739549)
Read the W3C Recommendations for the protocol and data model. Neither has any mention whatsoever of a notification or alert:

https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-protocol/

https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/

Any type of notification would be an extra feature performed by annotation software, but is not a part of the specification.

Your annotation client could query the annotation server at a known endpoint for new annotations. The results should be ordered and paginated, but the order and pagination used seem to be at the discretion of individual implementations.

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Re:Annotation is now a web standard by mathoff on Sunday February 26, 2017 @03:20PM (#13739588)
Hm... that would be really sad.
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