Hi all,<br><br>As some of you may remember, in Máirín's design-pony post [1] one of the ideas was to have Flickr-style note-taking for designers to communicate more efficiently. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, try it out by rolling your mouse over this image [2].<br>
<br>The obvious benefit of this is that even though we're all over the globe, we can still "point at the screen" and comment on different parts of a design. I think this would be especially great for UI and web design. :)<br>
<br>So I did a little research and it seems that Flickr's implementation is based on a standard called Fotonotes [3]. Fotonotes also provides a Javascript client and it's all open source. I even found a MediaWiki extension [4], but you need to patch MediaWiki to get it to work so I'm not sure if it's suitable for our own wiki. An example can be found here [5] though.<br>
<br>I tried it out and it's very simple to set up. You can see an instance on my fpo space [6], though it doesn't save anything. I also tried out Tipmage [7] here [8], which is about the same thing, also in Javascript and open source. Double-click to add a note! Again, this doesn't yet save anything.<br>
<br>Anyhow, I was thinking that we should really set something like this up for the Design Team. Like <a href="http://fpaste.org">fpaste.org</a> for designers. It doesn't seem too hard (even I could get it working!) and it's really extremely cool IMO.<br>
<br>Has anyone ever tried these before? Any experiences or comments?<br><br>Do you guys think this is possible to set up somewhere? :)<br><br>Jef<br><br>[1] <a href="http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/the-one-where-the-designers-ask-for-a-pony/">http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/the-one-where-the-designers-ask-for-a-pony/</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rjl20/2218551175/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/rjl20/2218551175/</a><br>[3] <a href="http://fotonotes.net/">http://fotonotes.net/</a><br>[4] <a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Fotonotes">http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Fotonotes</a><br>
[5] <a href="http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Image:Test_image.jpg">http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Image:Test_image.jpg</a><br>[6] <a href="http://schendje.fedorapeople.org/fotonotes/docs/test_dog.html">http://schendje.fedorapeople.org/fotonotes/docs/test_dog.html</a><br>
[7] <a href="http://digitalhymn.com/argilla/tipmage/">http://digitalhymn.com/argilla/tipmage/</a><br>[8] <a href="http://schendje.fedorapeople.org/fotonotes2/test.htm">http://schendje.fedorapeople.org/fotonotes2/test.htm</a><br>