Ask HN: Is there a tool / product that enables commenting on HTML elements? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Is there a tool / product that enables commenting on HTML elements?

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Post by ngc6677 » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 5:53 AM UTC

Also annotations with Cactus Comments https://cactus.chat (based on Matrix).

Re: Ask HN: Is there a tool / product that enables commenting on HTML elements?

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Post by hbcondo714 » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 5:59 AM UTC

https://web.hypothes.is/

Re: Ask HN: Is there a tool / product that enables commenting on HTML elements?

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 6:06 AM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Is there a tool / product that enables commenting on HTML elements?

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Post by yevi » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 6:10 AM UTC

kornish wrote: post #6

I think https://jam.dev/ should do it! (not affiliated - just a fan)

Second jam.dev - it’s zippy!

the founders are really responsive to any feedback so add it in the extension store or tweet them @jamdotdev

Re: Ask HN: Is there a tool / product that enables commenting on HTML elements?

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Post by Blahah » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 6:12 AM UTC

unilynx wrote: post #3

What if the element moves or is replaced in the next design iteration ? I’m not sure you want to be merging and splitting tickets on individual DOM elements to keep the comment history sane.. Though I would be interested in tooling that allows clients to simply create issues by clicking an element and then saving full context (dom, screenshot, url, form state, browser and session) with that issue. Something important…

Yes, you're describing some of the problems addressed by the open annotations standard and the tooling in that ecosystem.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a tool / product that enables commenting on HTML elements?

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Post by ericls » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 6:16 AM UTC

How do you define the _identity_ of an html element?

Re: Ask HN: Is there a tool / product that enables commenting on HTML elements?

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Post by Blahah » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 6:17 AM UTC

Yes. Only one solving the problem very very well right now.

Memex - https://getmemex.com

More generally the open annotations standard is meant to address this use case, but it's been stagnant for a while. Older, now obselete tools like hypothes.is, and peerlibrary* laid a lot of the groundwork. Memex has really carried it for the last few years and their implementation is remarkably robust.

https://github.com/peerlibrary/peerlibrary