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mir3z / texthighlighter

-- NO LONGER MAINTAINED -- TextHighlighter allows you to highlight text on web pages.
http://mir3z.github.com/texthighlighter/
MIT License
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Disclaimer #20

Open julkue opened 8 years ago

julkue commented 8 years ago

@mir3z Could you please explain why this repository isn't maintained anymore?

mir3z commented 8 years ago

Unfortunetely I have limited free time and issues reported here suggest that some aspects of highlighting and serialization need to be rethinked carefully in order to fix these issues. Beside that I'm contributing to other projects which are more important to me. So I decided to stop maintaining this project but I believe the biggest advantage of github in this case is that anyone can fork the project and continue work.

jtsternberg commented 7 years ago

Would love to know if anyone officially adopts this project. @mir3z Can you update this thread if a new maintainer steps up?

jtsternberg commented 7 years ago

Just as a heads up, I've forked this repo, and will maintain until another steps up, or I can't afford to do so.

julkue commented 7 years ago

Basically I think we should work out the advantages of texthighlighter in comparison to e.g. rangy first to see if it is worthwhile to continue maintaining.

jtsternberg commented 7 years ago

Rangy looks pretty good. Are you using it @julmot?

julkue commented 7 years ago

@jtsternberg No, neither one. :bowtie:

mir3z commented 7 years ago

One thing I know is that rangy has a lot better serialization feature than texthighlighter.

On the other hand, rangy provides kind of a DOM Level 2 Range polyfill and is heavier than texthighlighter.

jtsternberg commented 7 years ago

I've played with both quite a bit so far. I like texthighlighter a bit more, but decided to use Rangy since it's being supported. So far, in my experience, the serialization/deserialization is a bit brittle. the DOM needs to be the exact shape it was when the serialization was created. I'm not sure if texthighlighter was the same way, but it's making things a bit difficult for a dynamic site. sigh

mir3z commented 7 years ago

To be host - serialization is very buggy in texthighlighter.