Re:Annotation is now a web standard
by tedmiston on Monday February 27, 2017 @02:23AM
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> The blog post is put out by a company I've never heard of, and the credits listed on it include nobody who works on a browser…
By the way, the Genius team is backed by Marc Andreessen. While Genius and Hypothesis aren't formally related, the two annotation products are very similar just for different audiences. Tim Berners-Lee is even featured in the video at the end of the post.
This is kind of a crazy comment to have to make when the two biggest creators of the web browser support annotations. People who've worked on browsers absolutely have a vested interest in the web annotation standard.
By the way, the Genius team is backed by Marc Andreessen. While Genius and Hypothesis aren't formally related, the two annotation products are very similar just for different audiences. Tim Berners-Lee is even featured in the video at the end of the post.
This is kind of a crazy comment to have to make when the two biggest creators of the web browser support annotations. People who've worked on browsers absolutely have a vested interest in the web annotation standard.
https://hypothes.is/blog/a-letter-to-marc-andreessen-and-rap...