Adding a New Annotation

Like viewing an annotated Web page, adding a new annotation to a Web page requires a lot of interaction with HyperGloss scripts:

A script looks through the HTML souce code in order to see how many times the annotated text appears on the page.
If the annotated text is not on the page, the annotation is not allowed to be made.
If the annotated text appears more than once, a separate script is run to determine the actual instance of the page that is being annotated.
- All the links from the page are removed.
- Superscript links are added to each instance of the annotated text.
- The user is then asked to choose which instance is the one that was intended.
Once the correct instance of the text has been found, or if there was only one instance, the context for the annotated text is grabbed and stored along with the basic information for the annotation and the instance number of the annotated text.