Annotation display on 4.0M1
Icon Position Variations: have an icon link to the annotated content
- can be confused just with a decoration and not with an action
- kind of crowded and not an action to the entity itself
- offers a separation of levels, but competes too much with the other actions
Separation Variations: use a less prominent icon for linking
- Move the annotation mark up, near the annotated content
- The problem is that the annotation mark looks is an icon, all the other icons are actionable, so this may be confusing
- Use the same demarcation for the annotation like in the context where the annotation was created
- Too much emphasis and contrast on the annotation and here is not it's primary location (this is just a reference)
- Good balance
- Use border-color instead of icon to mark .normal, .updated and .altered states for an annotation
Proposal - Interaction
- Normal block state
- Hover block state
- Hover link icon state
- Usage example