Anyone know how I can *delete* an annotation I just made? It's the highlight on "commercial entities", a few paragraphs down in this post: http://blog.opentechstrategies.com/2016/06/oss_... . I only made the annotation to test that the Hypothes.is WordPress plugin was working. It looks like it is working, but now I can't figure out how to get rid of this spurious annotation.
I've been reading https://hypothes.is/docs/help, but it doesn't talk about how to delete an annotation that one has made.
Ahh, okay, my issue on http://blog.opentechstrategies.com/2016/06/oss_... is just how to remove a *highlight* (one with no note attached). I highlighted the text "commercial entities" (see sidebar marker 1). Now I'd like to make that highlight go away, but I don't see any way to do that.
I wasn't signed in when I did it. (Later, on http://blog.opentechstrategies.com/2016/06/test..., I created a highlight-only annotation after I was signed in, and I *was* able to delete that one afterwards, because it showed up as a note.)
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<dwhly> kfogel: there is an occasional bug I’ve seen where highlights can be initiated when a person is not logged in that can’t be then deleted. but if you reload the page, they generally should be gone. i’ll see if I can repro this and then file as an issue.
<dwhly> The complication is that we want to preserve the highlight action thru the login process.
<dwhly> The obvious issue is that “as a user” I don’t know that this process is mid-flight and all I see is the highlight tab in the tab bar and no way to “delete” it.
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OK thanks for that robertknight
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<dwhly> @sheetaluk: I’m noticing that selecting on a PDF and then activating the extension does not pop the Adder up like as on HTML. I’m presuming that was out of scope, and not a regression. Difficult?
<sheetaluk> @dwhly: Checking
<sheetaluk> @dwhly: Activating H on a pdf does a page reload and the selection is lost.
<sheetaluk> The difference in URLs in the url bar is `file:///Users/sheetaluk/Downloads/poof.pdf` vs `chrome-extension://fdlbhgoapffdledjennicfjlgjkkfojf/content/web/viewer.html?file=file%3A%2F%2F%2FUsers%2Fsheetaluk%2FDownloads%2Fpoof.pdf` for H inactive and H activate respectively
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<robertknight> @dwhly: That might be tricky in Chrome because the original selection you make is inside Chrome's native PDF viewer. I don't know if that exposes any hooks to that an extension could use to get the selection but my guess is probably not. If it did, we'd then need to translate that to a selection in the PDF.js viewer.
<dwhly> Yeah i figured.
<dwhly> I know long term we were hoping to not require the url with the chrome:// bit. Perhaps related?
<dwhly> Probably not
<robertknight> Hmm... Right now the embed works by reloading a different page, as do all other custom PDF viewers that I've seen. It might be possible to just replace the content of the existing tab with the PDF.js viewer.