Annozilla 0.5 beta installation

For installation of the latest experimental beta packages, see the new installation guide.

Version 0.5 beta is experimental. It should be installed instead of version 0.3.5, not alongside it. It seems to work with Mozilla 1.6 and there is read-only annotation support for Mozilla Firefox.

Annozilla 0.3.5 Installation

Or, if you want to install the older, and slightly rusty, version 0.3.5:

• Firstly install the package, now at version 0.3.5.
• Please then restart your browser and return to this page to continue installation.
• If this is the first time you have installed Annozilla, make sure your sidebar is visible, and go to this URL:

  chrome://annozilla/content/addpanel.xul

  This will add Annozilla to your sidebar panel.
• Now go to the preferences window (Edit -> Preferences -> Annozilla) and set the server, user name and password. Please note:
  • You will need to have an account with an annotation server. To try the W3C test server, get an account at http://annotest.w3.org/access.
  • The "Server" preference should be set to the URL of the annotation server. (For example, the W3C test server is at http://annotest.w3.org/annotations.)
  • NB when you request the body of an annotation, you will be asked for your user name and password again, this is because the body of the annotation is retrieved by a different mechanism. You can use Password Manager to remember the values here though.
  • If you are using the W3C test server, then you can probably find some annotations attached to the Annotea page.
• You can also configure:
  • whether the annotations, when you select them, appear in an area in the sidebar, or in a new browser window
  • whether to (a) try to determine the text that the annotation applies to, and (b) insert an icon in the main browser window to indicate the annotation.
  • whether to load annotation bodies in an area of the sidebar, or in a new window
• For languages, the options are these:
  • You can specify "only view annotations in my preferred language". This only affects annotations which have a language specified.
  • You can decide whether or not to view annotations without any language information specified. (At the moment, I think that Annozilla is the only Annotea client which can specify the language of annotations).