Click location widget + margin annotations. How work? Amazin

[bboyjkang]

I don't know how I ended up on the HTML Living Standard page (http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/cu ... multipage/), but I'm glad I did because it looks like my dream documentation page.

Can someone tell me anything about how “You can use the widget at the bottom right (it says "Click the location of the error to select it, then type your message here:") to submit review comments on the spec.” and “status annotations in the left margin” work?

I'm not a developer (trying to be), but I absolutely want to at least promote these features to as many open-source software website documentations as I can.

In the event that a project acknowledges these features, but needs help with implementation, could I get information on the coding or documentation behind them?

Any directions to material about what's behind these things is appreciated.

[zcorpan]

Send an email to ian@hixie.ch

[bboyjkang]

Basically I hacked up some scripts to do it.

There's not much to them, but the code is rather specific to this
application.

You can see the client-side code for the review widget here:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/cu ... eviewer.js

You can see the client-side code for the status box widgets here:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/cu ... /status.js

The server side code isn't particularly clever; the review widget is
basically just a quick script that invokes the Bugzilla API to file a bug,
and the status widget API is basically just a proxy to the database.

HTH,

Ian Hickson