From matthew at mjwilson.demon.co.uk  Sun Dec 10 10:27:19 2006
From: matthew at mjwilson.demon.co.uk (Matthew Wilson)
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:27:19 +0000
Subject: [Annozilla] Latest development work
Message-ID: <457C5187.1090405@mjwilson.demon.co.uk>

Just an update on the current work on Annozilla.

Eliot Setzer and C. Greg Hagerty have both contributed great patches 
which fix bugs and add functionality. These have been checked in to CVS 
and merged back on to the main line. There is still work to be done to 
get all the features working correctly.

The latest information can be found at
http://annozilla.mozdev.org/ReleaseNotes.html
http://annozilla.mozdev.org/ToDo.html

Note that the builds linked from these pages are strictly experimental.

The next builds are likely to drop official support for Firefox versions 
prior to 1.5.0.8.

Matthew


From cgregh at gmail.com  Wed Dec 13 11:44:22 2006
From: cgregh at gmail.com (C. Greg Hagerty)
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:44:22 -0500
Subject: [Annozilla] Latest development work
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[My lattest patches for the development version 0.7 are now at
    http://infolab.umdnj.edu/annozilla
   patch121306_annozilla-chrome-content.patch
   patch121306_annozilla-services-components.patch
   patch121306_xpointerlib-components.patch
   Footnote/tagset/toolbar-button release soon to follow!
] 

I've just made a few additional enhancements to IconManager:
updateAnnotationOnSuccess can just call _InsertAnnotationBefore to
update existing icons as well as spans (updating annotation-type). 

You'll notice IconManager and highlight are now aware of "Global/Page
annotations" (having html as parent).   Highlight needs to notice
these so the body doesn't get wrapped.  This conveniently dovetails
with Eric's context aware context menu item.

Well, I've been using/planning to use the global page annotations
to point to things such as additional annotation sets (additional
datasources or for other/cached pages) and stylesheets.  Eventually,
this might first apply the current/default creator's page annotations
and look for a directive to see whose other page annotation directives
to follow.  At present, IconManager (_InsertAnnotationBefore) can just
look for a line in the annotation body "Use-Stylesheet: " to add the
corresponding css link. 

Cryptic patch notes:

*Annozilla: consolidated addAnnotations(formerly "Asynch", now always)
*Annozilla: initAnnozilla called from overlay load listener, init tab 
observer
*Annozilla: restored unload listener (else reload chrome doesn't work so 
well)
*Annozilla: function def args have to be on one line or Venkman gets 
confused?
*Annozilla: (untabified)
*Annozilla: _addNext skip annotations of other pages (in case there are)
*IconManager, Highlight: a little craziness for global/page annotations
*IconManager: delete spans on deleteAnnotationOnSuccess, _removeHighlight
*Highlight: Don't warn about annotations.css,
  TODO: Document ways to provide custom css (eg shadow or via a page 
annotation)
*Highlight: Tricky endRangeIncluded patch to evaluateNode to maintain order
*(and no, we generally don't want condition/recommendation on context menu)
*ContextMenu: nonModalPostAnnotation
  TODO: still (really annoying) problems getting prefs with new scheme:
        defaultPostServer, creator
*Editor delete button: CommonEditor.prototype.deeleet()
*CommonEditor, PostObserver allow annotation arg to be type of new 
annotation
*nsXPointerlib: comment out resolveXPointerToRange (normal case) dump
*nsAnnotationService: Don't reject until after notifying observers 
onBeginLoad
*nsLocalAnnotationServer: Init method overload hack
   to load alternate datasource files, when provided
   and toggle path invariant annotations mode
 *nsLocalAnnotationServer: Path invariant annotations, when secretly toggled
   getresources also for filename alone w/o path
   (allows for caches/mirrors, moving local files around)

...Greg