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Dev channel update to 80.0.345.0 is live
josh_bodner
Josh, please, comment on or explain the following. There is a pronounced effort to bring 'tools' to PDFs, the latest being Highlighter. These things (abilities/functions) sound an awful lot like what is in Add notes of Edge HTML. Having this stuff for PDFs is, certainly, great, but, simultaneously, Add notes should be/must be in the browser! We should not be hearing about this for PDFs, only and not for the browser, also! Supposed to be in the browser so people can CONTINUE to use it to then Share which, is why their icons sit/live side-by-side .
Not, only, need the Add notes icon, but, the Share icon is not where it belongs (YET). It's not a big help buried in the ellipsis.
Cheers,
Drew
Drew1903 don't forget, we've got a discussion going here to try to figure out why people want to be able to ink on webpages: what types of pages do they do it on, what do they write, what scenarios can they accomplish with ink that they can't any other way. That will help us know where to start prioritizing the work: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/Inking-on-Web-Pages-Discussion/m-p/1006005.
josh_bodner
Josh, not forgetting that at all & it's terrific. There is heaps of input in that regard as many Folks use it often for many things... especially sharing specific bits from a page with friends or colleagues. There is & will be lots from people justifying why they want it in Edge C. If, feedback produces an even better, more appealing Add notes, cool, but, it must stay. AND, here's the crux of the matter...
"what scenarios can they accomplish with ink that they can't any other way?", Josh
This is the beauty of Add notes (together with Share)! One does not have to leave sight of the page being used NOR do they have to go to any tool outside the browser to accomplish the task!
Cheers,
Drew- Edge classic must have produced some insights and data for the team to see what and how people use the web page inking on it, i mean Microsoft gathers diagnostic data from Windows users so that must mean something and not necessarily rely on people.
- I guess that perhaps the diagnostic data shows that almost nobody actually ever used web inking, but since Edge itself didn't have that many users in the first place, there is a chance that new users might see more value in the feature than those of old Edge. So this kind of research may present Microsoft with new reasons to re-implement web inking that a purely telemetry-based decision wouldn't (as the telemetry would tell them to axe the feature).
