Since I put it into testing over at the ABe board already, I might as well make a thread here to discuss my latest project.

http://wakaba.c3.cx/notes/notes.pl

In a nutshell, it's a script for putting notes on images. This is from an idea of whispers', about collaborative translation - several people can work on a translation by creating and editing notes for text on a comic page. There are probably other uses too, if someone can be bothered to think about them.

It's definitely not done yet, but it's open for public scrutiny for bug testing and to gather ideas for features it needs to be useful. Some signs of it being unfinished are:

• No deletion of notes, and no reverting to older versions.
• Lack of other unspecified backend features (for instance, discussion threads for each image)
• It would be useful to have differently coloured notes, but that's not done yet.
• Some newline issues with certain browsers. Not sure which ones, but that should be easy enough to fix.

Well, have a look. Try not to mess it up too badly. If you want to do some heavy testing, add a new image to work on.

Imagine if this were just a Firefox plugin so that you could do it to any image on the entire internets without having to leave the site...

we have incorporated notes.pl into one of our wakaba boards. check it out here: www.wtfux.org/cams/

no "how to config" board or post :/

I think this script is pretty damn cool and I'd hate to necropost. Oh well, I wanted to know if you have to use a new SQL DB for each install of Notes? Notes isn't quite that documented it seems.

I'm guessing that you need to get in a browser and head to
.../notes.pl just like .../wakaba.pl where it then creates the HTML everyone can view?

I hope I'm right.

This is a cool script and I could eventually find a bunch of uses for it.

Just asking a bunch of stupid questions for a PDF I'm writing. so I may have more noob questions.