Meeting 2017 11 08 Frontend

Participants

Present:

Agenda (to discuss)

Progress update

Action Points from last meeting

• Create a simple extension to make sure the messaging between contentScript and background page is working, or find a simple chrome extension highlighting example.

• Continue action points from previous meeting.

  • Ask phong the possibility of making annotation as node attribute instead of new node.
  • Move the code for highlighting/annotation to its own 'view' and 'controller' file.
  • create a 'model' for content script to keep data (in memory)
  • send annotation and highlight data from the contentScript MVC to historyMap mvc via background page d3 dispatch chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener(function(request, sender, sendResponse).
  • move the User Browser code to the latest rebuild-mvc (create a new branch of rebuild-mvc) and make it into a separate MVC.

Discussion Points

Project timeline update

Next meeting time

Action Points

Humzah

• merge with the latest version of rebuild-mvc;
• merge often with the main branch, and small change each time;
• Include the annotation icon in the reduced font awesome library using fontello.com. Ask Reday about the list of icons needed for historymap.

Kai

• Ask Phong if he tried any highlighting library as a blackbox without making any change.