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Custom, on the fly page landmarks

What would you say are some possible functions of a landmark bookmarklet? Will landmarks be shared among all users? I'm curious about the potential use cases, but I'm happy to help implement the idea.


Custom, on the fly page landmarks

I created a repository for the project at GitHub.

http://github.com/jccovey/landmarks/tree/master


Custom, on the fly page landmarks

Created a Google App Engine account to house the bookmarklet and the accompanying web service.

The name "landmarks" wasn't available, so I took the liberty of renaming the project to Instamarks. I updated the github repository to reflect the name change.

http://instamarks.appspot.com/


Custom, on the fly page landmarks

I'm working on a more compact UI for the bookmarklet itself. I added a stylesheet for the website, too.

I don't think we need to authenticate users with any kind of password - all people can save are html anchors on public pages - so I think we can get by with our own Users model that has an ID (string, 3-15 characters), maybe a hidden email address, and a timestamp rather than make people use their gmail accounts to log in.


Custom, on the fly page landmarks

I updated the bookmarklet UI substantially and deployed the latest code to App Engine.

http://instamarks.appspot.com/


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Custom, on the fly page landmarks
Estimated time: 1 hour
A 30 minutes project. We simply create a floating landmark list (fixed, semi-transparent), and we can create landmarks (named anchors) on a page: no fuss, we just use absolute positioning in body. Useful when reading long documents. Loaded through a ...