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Elliot Kirk
Microsoft
MicrosoftInking on Web Pages - Discussion
We have received a lot of feedback about supporting inking annotations for web pages like what we have in the current version of Microsoft Edge. Many users have told us that they use this functionali...
Elliot Kirk I wonder why MS didn't solicit feedback on use of the feature before it was removed? I agree with several people that it was the main reason I used Edge (well this and the quick save of open tabs). It is also one of the features that is used to sell Surface products so it is hard to fathom why it would be removed as if nobody would notice. The snipping tool update is a poor substitute. I want to draw on a live web page. For example, I have a conference schedule with all of the Zoom links for the workshop sessions. I want to highlight or check the sessions I will attend but still have the live connection links available to me. I do legal research so I want to make notations or highlights in published cases and still have live links to cited cases and statutes so I can easily jump to them. I also want to save these highlighted cases for future use. I know that I can download documents to Word or Adobe but the drawing features in Adobe aren't as robust as those that Edge used to have. Word is better but not all content can be converted easily to Word and it is a lot of extra steps. Plus, it isn't even clear how to download a page. In FireFox it is one click, easy peasy. Return of this feature needs to be a priority if you don't want to make Edge obsolete.
CDBETTS wrote:Elliot Kirk I wonder why MS didn't solicit feedback on use of the feature before it was removed? I agree with several people that it was the main reason I used Edge (well this and the quick save of open tabs). It is also one of the features that is used to sell Surface products so it is hard to fathom why it would be removed as if nobody would notice. The snipping tool update is a poor substitute. I want to draw on a live web page. For example, I have a conference schedule with all of the Zoom links for the workshop sessions. I want to highlight or check the sessions I will attend but still have the live connection links available to me. I do legal research so I want to make notations or highlights in published cases and still have live links to cited cases and statutes so I can easily jump to them. I also want to save these highlighted cases for future use. I know that I can download documents to Word or Adobe but the drawing features in Adobe aren't as robust as those that Edge used to have. Word is better but not all content can be converted easily to Word and it is a lot of extra steps. Plus, it isn't even clear how to download a page. In FireFox it is one click, easy peasy. Return of this feature needs to be a priority if you don't want to make Edge obsolete.
But they didn't remove it, they made a new browser from ground up and they had to remake that feature again. so there wasn't anything to solicit. but now they are and user feedbacks heavily impact the future of Edge, we see it every week.
Good thing is, this feature is currently implemented, not 100% but you can try it out if you install Edge Dev (or canary)
Download Microsoft Edge Insider Channels
They call it Web Capture now
Introducing web capture for Microsoft Edge - Microsoft Tech Community
at this moment I'm writing this comment, you can:
- take screenshots of the web pages
- take scrolling/long screenshots of web pages
- Draw/Ink on web pages
- Erase your Drawing/Inking
- Save your web capture
- Copy your Web capture
- Share your Web capture straight to OneNote or other apps for further work on them
more options are on the way
