I’m working on a text highlighting tool
I’m seriously thinking about resurrecting Coderights (my old blog about software legal issues), but there are quite a few things I want to do a differently with it this time around. Foremost among them is that I need more technology behind it than just Wordpress or Movabletype.
For example, I probably will talk more about software licensing. In the past, I was frustrated when I was trying to highlight multiple pieces of text from a contract (or one court case, for that matter).
So this afternoon I’m working on a tool to help me do just that: highlight text and render rich information related to that highlight. It will use AJAX, and I will post it soon on labs.michaelrice.me.
For a little while there, I was thinking about doing it with Cappuccino, the new Objective-J based framework, but I think that will be overkill for what I’m trying to accomplish—for now, anyway.
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