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Highlight Wayback Changes feature #548

Open cgorringe opened 4 years ago

cgorringe commented 4 years ago

This is a new feature idea to make use of the Wayback Machine's Changes API.

The idea is to compare the latest saved snapshot of the currently viewed website, to a snapshot that was stored in the past. Perhaps the last snapshot that was archived just prior (by default) but may include a drop-down menu listing earlier snapshots. Then highlight the changes on the current page.

This is an example Changes page on the Wayback Machine website. https://web.archive.org/web/changes/https://www.iskme.org/

I'm actually thinking we could try a different UI than that website: Rather than compare 2 pages side by side, just show the full page highlighted.

mitchell-frost commented 4 years ago

Ca I work on this issue?