Annotea on Mozilla

Annozilla 0.3.1 released

This is mostly a maintenance release, bringing Annozilla up to date with the latest Mozilla interfaces. This release REQUIRES Mozilla 0.9.7 (or higher). Other changes in this release are:

• Goes directly to the annotation server, instead of via the bookmarklet servlet
• Uses fixed positioning in the sidebar to display the title and annotation body at all times

News, 25th January: Mike Lee has suggested a way of displaying the 'annotation' icons without disrupting the DOM. This would be a great improvement (ensuring that displaying annotations did not break scripts or stylesheets).

This is the the Annozilla project, designed to view and create annotations associated with a web page, as defined by the W3C Annotea project. The idea is to store annotations as RDF on a server, using XPointer (or at least XPointer-like constructs) to identify the region of the document being annotated.

The intention of Annozilla is to use Mozilla's native facilities to manipulate annotation data - its built-in RDF handling to parse the annotations, and nsIXmlHttpRequest to submit data when creating annotations.

To use Annozilla, you will need to install the code, get set up with a user account with an annotation server (e.g., the W3C test server) , and then you should be ready to go.

You can also see some screenshots - an example of the sidebar in action, and the preferences panel.