Security Concerns for WWW Annotation Mechanisms

by Daniel LaLiberte (short-biography)
HyperNews, NCSA

Web browsers have supported private annotations in the past, and even group and public annotations, though scalability concerns forced reconsideration. Now, few browsers support even private annotations, so how can we reintroduce annotation support in existing browsers? Proxies, Java, and JavaScript offer some hope, though each have difficiencies. I'll discuss how I plan to support annotations in the HyperNews software.

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