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

#1
I'm searching for a commercial product that enables commenting on HTML elements on a product so it can be shared with an org. Think google comments connected to Inspect Element in chrome that can be shared with an organization.

I want to get away from creating tickets or sending emails highlighting UX concerns. This is cumbersome and not very transparent or collaborative.

Does a tool like this already exist?

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

#2
How is this your biggest problem?

Emailing an annotated screenshot or attaching to a JIRA seems better because it's more consistent and blends with other processes. What should happen when webpages content changes or goes defunct? Now you're also creating an archive.org... and on and on.

Don't get stuck and sink your time into a local maxima.

Maybe you'll find a market [of fools] willing to invest time into this exact locally optimal solution, but I predict it will be disappointingly small. The problem it solves isn't broadly substantial enough to warrant a specialized solution.

Only one way to know for sure, though ;)

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

#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 is too often missing from a bug report.

But then the problem is getting the client to actually use that tool.

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

#5
I've actually seen folks post a wiki-style list here of tools in the spirit of your request.

The key thing your post is missing is that the word you're looking for is "annotations".

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=annotations https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22876408

Going back to some of these old posts makes me highly nostalgic for a specific era of the web when we had no reason to expect that we wouldn't always be using bookmarklets to get shit done, Facebook Open Graph was a Thing and there was an assumption that everything would soon be connected like modules using Yahoo Pipes. https://web.archive.org/web/20120320063943/http://nimblecode... https://web.archive.org/web/20120211054910/http://www.readwr...

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

#10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tried it, really bad. Don't recommend.

Details?

Just so many bugs in the product and didn't feel right for an organization. Felt more like a toy app.
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