thanks, that helped me a bunch :)
On Sep 14, 11:09 pm, Daniel Graversen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Tomas,
>
> I have created a blog about
> annotationshttp://www.masteringwave.com/2009/09/google-wave-annotations/,
> hope this will help other learn about annotations.
>
> /daniel
>
> On Jul 23, 12:27 am, Tomas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Interestingly enough the first letter in theblipis not position 0,
> > when counting range, but 2. So for example in the document "abcdef",
> > the range 2:3 spans the letter 'a' and 3:5 spans the letters 'bc'.
>
> > It took me a while to understand all this so perhaps you will find
> > this helpful. Theannotationsspan something they call 'items' in the
> >blipand an item is roughly an entire tag or a letter, for instance.
> > Now I haven't found this spelled out, but gathered it from reading
> > about the Wave protocoll, but for now it's the best explanation I have
> > been able to come up with.
>
> > Theannotationsspan items and thus the range is really counted across
> > all items in the XML, tags as well as letters in this case so the
> > reason we get 2 as starting index of the range is because the document
> > really looks like this:
>
> > <blip><p>'A'
> > Item no 0 1 2
>
> > Normally you wouldn't care and just use the ranges supplied by the
> > engine, but this is crucial to know if you want to calculate ranges on
> > you own in your code.
>
> > Tomas.
>
> > On 22 Juli, 19:46, Tom Maaswinkel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Hey Suhas,
> > > I'm currently working on a bot that makes it possible toeditarticles from
> > > a mediawiki instalation (used by websites as Wikipedia) inside a wave.
> > > Mediawiki supports templates (including other pages into your current
> > > page).
> > > When ever a user tries to do this in my wave, I actually import that page,
> > > but I put an annotation around it specifying that it is a template. This
> > > way
> > > I can prevent people from editing this part of the wave and I can output
> > > 'clean' wikitext. Because whenever the template changes, this should also
> > > happen on the pages the template is included, so I don't want to include
> > > the
> > > actual content but just a reference!
>
> > > I'm currently working on a demo video on my robot, I guess it will be
> > > online
> > > in a week. I think that will explain it a bit more.
>
> > > - Tom
>
> > > 2009/7/22 Suhas Nandakumar <[email protected]>
>
> > > > Hello Tom,
> > > > Thank you for the information. The second case sounds interesting
> > > > where
> > > > in you store the information about something in annotation. If this is
> > > > not
> > > > too much of asking, can you provide me a use-case where you are using
> > > > the
> > > > annotation for this purpose
>
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Suhas
>
> > > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Tom Maaswinkel
> > > > <[email protected]
> > > > > wrote:
>
> > > >> Hey Suhas,
> > > >> as there are 2 tom's I'll just answer and maybe the other guy will do
> > > >> too.
> > > >>Annotationsare just for a lot of things! In the current Wave client
> > > >>made by
> > > >> Google they are mainly used to specify text 'styles' (i.e. bold,
> > > >> italic,
> > > >> underline, color, background-color, font-family etc) and it is used for
> > > >> grammar checks (if it thinks something is spelled wrong, it will make
> > > >> an
> > > >> annotation that specify's this).
>
> > > >> I also use it to store information about a certain piece of text, as
> > > >> you
> > > >> can assign any name and value (both Strings) to an annotation, so you
> > > >> can
> > > >> use it for whatever you want.
>
> > > >> - Tom
>
> > > >> 2009/7/22 Suhas Nandakumar <[email protected]>
>
> > > >> Hello Tom,
> > > >>> Can you provide some details of usage ofannotations. some
> > > >>> examples
> > > >>> that can get me started
>
> > > >>> Thanks
> > > >>> Suhas
>
> > > >>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Tom Maaswinkel <
> > > >>> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > >>>> Hey Tomas,
> > > >>>> I have already played a lot with this and the annotation will just
> > > >>>> 'stretch'. As Henrique already mentions: Rich text are
> > > >>>> alsoannotations
> > > >>>> (bold/italic etc)...
>
> > > >>>> You can see this happening in your Editor Debug view!
> > > >>>> - Tom
>
> > > >>>> 2009/7/22 Henrique Pinheiro <[email protected]>
>
> > > >>>> I think when someone presses 'done' to commit theirblip, the engine
> > > >>>>> translates Rich Text toannotations.
> > > >>>>> So, the second option: The annotation gets changed to 4:11.
>
> > > >>>>> BUT
>
> > > >>>>> I'm assuming that's an annotation for text styling. As I've only
> > > >>>>> used
> > > >>>>>annotationsfor that for now. I only know they can handle 'lang' info
> > > >>>>>as
> > > >>>>> well, but I don't know about arbitrary data.
>
> > > >>>>> Maybe if it's arbitrary, the engine could even discard your
> > > >>>>> annotation
> > > >>>>> when someone edits theblip.
> > > >>>>> Will have to test, that.
>
> > > >>>>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Tomas
> > > >>>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> > > >>>>>> When I put an annotation into a document, will it be affected by
> > > >>>>>> the
> > > >>>>>> operational transform done on the document?
>
> > > >>>>>> E.g. I have the following document:
>
> > > >>>>>> "The quick brow fox"
>
> > > >>>>>> I place an annotation with the range 4:9.
>
> > > >>>>>> Someone changes the document to:
>
> > > >>>>>> "The quicker brow fox"
>
> > > >>>>>> Now, will the annotation still have the range 4:9 or has it been
> > > >>>>>> changed to 4:11?
>
> > > >>>>>> Tom.
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