Making Changes to Others' Works Making Changes to Others' Works There is some difference between hypertext in theory and hypertext on the Web in terms of freedom, most notably the ability for readers to make changes to others' existing Web documents. In some systems, readers can make changes to another's documents. Such an ability to change a work gives readers freedom to have ideas incorporated into a work and have those changes available for others to see. Obviously scripting isn't part of HTML, but it is a technology widely available, and one that should be adopted especially for academic writing.
Any time readers go to that page, their annotations appear.
These annotations are only available from the machine on which they are stored, but they do offer a means of incorporating readers' ideas into another's page.