Bug 514451

Summary: HTML
Product: [Applications] okular Reporter: Alessandro Griseta <alegriseta>
Component: New backend wishesAssignee: Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: normal CC: aacid, alegriseta
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Alessandro Griseta 2026-01-11 11:29:57 UTC 
While when annotating on paper it's just making physical marks, making 'digital' marks can vary wildly when there's no standard (i.e. when we're not dealing with a PDF). If we believe in maximum interoperability, then we should agree on a 'fallback' standard when the format doesn't offer its own way of saving annotations.

HTML is a hugely popular format, and HTML conversion to other formats is often a disaster: ideally researchers, students, developers and the like would annotate directly on HTML, it has many benefits.

If Okular implements HTML I can use it for everything everywhere yay (Okular Mobile :) )!
Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2026-01-11 12:28:21 UTC 
We can not implement HTML in Okular.

Okular is a page oriented viewer, HTML does not have the concept of page.
Comment 2 Alessandro Griseta 2026-01-11 13:45:02 UTC 
Oh hey, didn't think of that, thanks for pointing that out. In that case, HTML may need their own standard of annotations, based on files rather than pages...