Annotate submissions for text-based questions

[weiqingtoh]

I am planning to implement text annotation for text submissions. Currently annotations are only available for code submissions.

I am experimenting between i) adopting coursemology's code annotation functions vs ii) implementing annotatorjs in Coursemology.

Could I get some views on which would be a better option forward? @lowjoel

[lowjoel]

annotatorjs looks good. but I think we need to also think about what happens when a client has no js (or disabled)

then the next problem I foresee is that we have these two parallel systems which is... nightmarish.

[weiqingtoh]

I am quite keen to try out annotatorjs. If so, at some stage we might want to combine the annotation modules rather than run 2 systems - is it possible to leave that to Coursemology v2? I could also explore migrating the coding annotations but I'm not sure how complex that will be.

WRT client-disabled js, what are the existing options out there? Google points me to one link on progressive enhancement - one way would be to show the annotations by default and no changes can be made.

[lowjoel]

yup. that's typically the way. backend handles heavy lifting, frontend just does sugar...

I thinkwe should only consolidate in v2 also. we need to...

[jsyeo]

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