Inspiration
I always learn a lot from webpages as I can't get what I want from Textbooks. But Just bookmarking is sometimes not enough and one might want to highlight what he/she has read from the website.
What it does
It listens to mouse selection and selects the text and remembers the selection, so that when the page is loaded again, it will be highlighted back.
How I built it
I developed a chrome extension to make it possible.
Challenges I ran into
It's always easy to highlight one line texts. But what if the selection spans across multiple tags and includes multiple type of elements.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
This is the first time I've written something in java script. I'm an Mobile and Desktop programmer and I'm proud I've done a decent bit of project in one day by myself.
What I learned
I learnt about the architecture of chrome apps, Javascript and a little bit of CSS and HTML.
What's next for Text Highlighter for Web
It can be further extended to accommodate text notes, voice etc
To use..just unzip the file. Drag and Drop into your Chrome Extensions page (in developer Mode)
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