Liner Browser Extension
undertook
Description
Liner is a web highlighter for desktop and mobile devices. Liner browser extension provides users with the ability to highlight sentences on a variety of web pages, get recommendations for a different page based on their highlights, and view top highlights highlighted by others.
Contributions
- Implemented Liner browser extension library, using JavaScript, tree algorithms and string matching algorithms, including APIs that 1)automatically find and underline text already highlighted by many people. 2)disable the highlight function when users select nodes or JavaScript source code other than text nodes.
- Developed a function that displays points next to the scroll bar which express the location of the highlight and scroll the screen to the corresponding highlight when a user clicks them.