General comments is a wonderful module, but lately I've been seeing
improvements on the idea crop up in several places. It would be nice to
be able to add comments attached to specific points on a web page,
somewhat like footnotes or annotations. Two implementations I have seen
are
http://www.quicktopic.com and
http://www.weborganic.com. In both
cases, the software lets the content author place specific comment
anchors on various places throughout a page.
Now, I think the UI can be improved. For example, it would be nice if
individual viewers had the choice of seeing the comments in a separate
browser window (as weborganic does) or to have anchor tags at the
bottom of the page, where general comments traditionally puts comments,
allowing users to jump to a particular footnote area but still keeping
the comments on the bottom of the same page as the original text. And,
of course, users should also still have the option of reading all page
comments in chronological order, the way general comments works today.
