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 Ladyady » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 6:39 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…

Ybug.io is the best I've found for this purpose. The only thing it doesn't do is collect the DOM element information. The user can choose to send a report with a full-screen screenshot or annotate a part of it.

It also sends console errors if you want it to.

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

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Post by mattkevan » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 6:43 AM UTC

Bugherd is good for this. Used it extensively when I worked for a web agency and it saved so much time.

https://bugherd.com/

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

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Post by sodimel » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 6:55 AM UTC

mattkevan wrote: post #22

Bugherd is good for this. Used it extensively when I worked for a web agency and it saved so much time. https://bugherd.com/

We're using bugherd too, works fine but it's not very ergonomic for 50+ projects. So we made something to display unassigned issues, all issues by last comment date (if it's not a comment from our team), last issues created, and last issues created for each of my colleagues and me.

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

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Post by onion2k » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 7:00 AM UTC

If you have concerns about UX I'd have thought you should be commenting at the design level rather than leaving it until things have got to the stage where they've been developed to the point where there's HTML to talk about.

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

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Post by trog » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 7:14 AM UTC

Does Genius Web Annotator still work? I used it years ago and found it pretty handy: https://genius.com/web-annotator

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

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Post by phgn » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 7:14 AM UTC

Blahah wrote: post #17

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/peerlib…

How is hypothes.is obsolete? They're focusing on education, but it works well for every personal and small-group commenting use-case. It's open source and there are community integrations for basically everything.

Native support for web annotations should also land in Chromium this year.

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

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Post by timvdalen » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 7:23 AM UTC

I built this a few years ago, but I have no idea if it still works: https://getvox.co/

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

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Post by sabr » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 7:24 AM UTC

Are the webpages you're primarily annotating, articles? If so, then I built Smort.io for this. To annotate and share articles easily.

Here is a demo: https://smort.io/demo/home

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

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Post by thejosh » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 7:32 AM UTC

mattkevan wrote: post #22

Bugherd is good for this. Used it extensively when I worked for a web agency and it saved so much time. https://bugherd.com/

Yeah it's great for a web agency as clients just "get it".

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

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Post by efortis » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 7:57 AM UTC

https://www.usebubbles.com for comments in a video+screencast

Or, in Chrome with the dev tools open, hit:

Command + Shift + P

Then type: Capture full size screenshot

Then you can use Previewer, PowerPoint, or any graphic design program to comment on the PNG