Comments on: Introducing : Unobtrusive Sidenotes

By: Meg

Meg — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:01:32 +0000

OK, my previous post was not real helpful because this website converted the HTML entities I typed into special characters! Here's a web page that shows what I meant: http://www.utexas.edu/learn/html/spchar.html

By: Meg

Meg — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:58:32 +0000

Figured out why the links were not validating–you have to delete all stray spaces (there are some in the sample code) and use the proper HTML entities for any special characters within your sidenote text. So to start a string of italic characters, e.g., you’d write “” rather than ““.

By: Dewed

Dewed — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:32:25 +0000

Ditto on the “how do I have the side notes hidden on initial page load” question.
I’m considering using this as a contextual help link , but want the “help” hidden until it is requested.

By: Meg

Meg — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:08:13 +0000

I love this script; thanks to arc90 for making it available. You can see a tweaked version working on my Moby Dick annotation website, http://www.powermobydick.com. The links in the notes do not validate, but they do work.

By: techniqueal t.

techniqueal t. — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:22:08 +0000

Wow, this is a real cool script! Got it running in blogger. There seems to be a conflict if there are existing spans on the body though. To be specific, the sidenote tends to misalign and prioritize a prior declared span even if that span doesnt have sidenote class property. Could this be a platform issue?

By: Amit Elhanan

Amit Elhanan — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:23:01 +0000

I would like to know if it’s possible to combine different methods of sidenotes. I sort of want something between what the Atlantic Monthly was using and the regular sidenotes. Basically, I want the side note to open on the side when I roll over the part of it in the text. and im not talking about the tag which shows the text in the sidenote, I am talking about the actual sidenote. is that possible? setting it up so that the sidenotes show up (not as popups) when I roll over the text?

By: anniebluesky

anniebluesky — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:48:45 +0000

I was excited to try it, also, but can’t get it to work with Blogger. Has anyone had any luck? If so, what did you do?

By: AT

AT — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:27:00 +0000

“I’m kinda curious why some who have commented don’t want the highlighted span tag? The purpose behind the span was to draw the connection between the current thought and the note that relates to that thought. With out the highlight you may not see the connection.”
I was also looking for a way to not have the span highlight the text. I’d prefer to use it just as a normal sidenote, off on the side on it’s own. I don’t want to use a colored box whose meaning isn’t immediately apparent.

By: Tatiana

Tatiana — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:56:05 +0000

Hi, I have no knowledge about ajax. Only about html and jsp. But I need this feature to my project. I tryied to implement your code in my page, but I wasn’t able to find out how you made the “hide/show” toggle work. If you could email me or post here the answer I would appreciate (like wich function is used in “onclick” actions and how excactly it works).
thanks

By: Nick Hayday

Nick Hayday — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:52:38 +0000
on this example http://lab.arc90.com/tools/sidenote/ how do I make the tooltips show up as hidden on original load, rather than they way it defaults now?