Is there a way to use what highlighter.com does in a rails app?
dunno, I was asking if there was a way to get the same sort of
functionality
to work.
Chris H. wrote in post #971388:
Is there a way to use what highlighter.com does in a rails app?
Highlighted is a WordPress plugin. How would you expect to be able to
use it in a Rails application?
Best,
Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]
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On Dec 30, 2010, at 10:41 AM, Chris H. wrote:
Best,
Marnen Laibow-Koser
If you want to build something like this from scratch, then you’re
going to need a way to get a text selection in a page. I have built a
little test page that does this part in JavaScript (and sends the
results to Google or Google Dictionary). [1]
That part is not completely overwhelming. But then you’ll want a way
to persist these selections, and there’s also some cleverness going on
in Highlighter to play back those selections later, so the next time a
different person comes to the page, they see the highlighted text with
an icon to relate to the comment. That part looks to be non-trivial.
Walter