Sounds like a good idea to me! :D Fab
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Jef van Schendel <[email protected] > wrote: > Hi all, > > As some of you may remember, in Máirín's design-pony post [1] one of the > ideas was to have Flickr-style note-taking for designers to communicate more > efficiently. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, try it out by > rolling your mouse over this image [2]. > > The obvious benefit of this is that even though we're all over the globe, > we can still "point at the screen" and comment on different parts of a > design. I think this would be especially great for UI and web design. :) > > So I did a little research and it seems that Flickr's implementation is > based on a standard called Fotonotes [3]. Fotonotes also provides a > Javascript client and it's all open source. I even found a MediaWiki > extension [4], but you need to patch MediaWiki to get it to work so I'm not > sure if it's suitable for our own wiki. An example can be found here [5] > though. > > I tried it out and it's very simple to set up. You can see an instance on > my fpo space [6], though it doesn't save anything. I also tried out Tipmage > [7] here [8], which is about the same thing, also in Javascript and open > source. Double-click to add a note! Again, this doesn't yet save anything. > > Anyhow, I was thinking that we should really set something like this up for > the Design Team. Like fpaste.org for designers. It doesn't seem too hard > (even I could get it working!) and it's really extremely cool IMO. > > Has anyone ever tried these before? Any experiences or comments? > > Do you guys think this is possible to set up somewhere? :) > > Jef > > [1] > http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/the-one-where-the-designers-ask-for-a-pony/ > [2] http://www.flickr.com/photos/rjl20/2218551175/ > [3] http://fotonotes.net/ > [4] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Fotonotes > [5] http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Image:Test_image.jpg > [6] http://schendje.fedorapeople.org/fotonotes/docs/test_dog.html > [7] http://digitalhymn.com/argilla/tipmage/ > [8] http://schendje.fedorapeople.org/fotonotes2/test.htm > > _______________________________________________ > design-team mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team >
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