Creating User Annotations with HTML5
Speaker
Dave Gash
When
Friday, 26 October, 11:50am
Session/Stream
2-3a, Tools and technology
Audience level
All levels
Purpose and focus of presentation
Way back in the olden days (circa 1995), users could add their own annotations to RTF-based WinHelp. Then along came HTML-based help, soon followed by WebHelp, and user annotations became practically impossible to implement. But with HTML5's local storage feature, user annotations are once again a practical and useful content-enhancement device. This session explores local storage and shows how your users can add their own notes to your WebHelp topics or Web pages. We'll see how to save and load user annotations, persist them across sessions, associate them with individual pages, and even share them among pages. After all these years, annotations are back -- and better than ever!
Key audience questions or issues addressed
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How the HTML5 localStorage object works
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How to save and retrieve user annotations
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How to associate annotations with specific pages
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How to add an attractive annotation area to your pages
