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Resolution: Won't Do
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First and foremost, I think the inline comments feature is invaluable - but the current method of rendering the viewer / editor in a sidebar makes viewing / writing more than a couple of lines attached to the content being commented on difficult for the vision impaired.
As someone whose vision can only be corrected to 20/40, I make fairly heavy use of browsers' "zoom in" feature along with increasing the default operating system font size. With those two factors combined, the way that the inline comment editor / viewer currently renders as a right sidebar makes for a bit of a "scrunched" display (see attached - not even at most comfortable magnification for me). On a 24" monitor, even with the tools sidebar closed, the comments are blocked into a relatively narrow column down the right side.
What would be really helpful is an option to render the inline comment editor / viewer underneath the text that was highlighted. I've provided a very simplistic mock-up, showing the comment view pane below the paragraph that is highlighted with the inline comment. While a non-modal pop-over would be very cool, a bottom-docked pane for viewing and editing the comments associated with a marker would do the trick (almost like a split editor window).
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[CONFSERVER-43387] Inline Comments: Display beneath hightlighted text
I like it! Including the drop-down list idea. That said, I suppose it could be an option for users who prefer the current way of handling.
And, if this feature could be extended to EDIT mode, so much the better.
Thanks.
Gregory Wright
added a comment - Adding to this, if you had the bottom-docked pane for the inline comments, you would want keep the next / previous comment controls to bring up the next / previous comment and scroll the text window to the appropriate place.
What would be very cool would be a drop down list to go to a specific inline comment on the page.
I think that if you did this separate pane, it would also help with viewing / editing comments while in edit mode for the page.
Gregory Wright
added a comment - Adding to this, if you had the bottom-docked pane for the inline comments, you would want keep the next / previous comment controls to bring up the next / previous comment and scroll the text window to the appropriate place.
What would be very cool would be a drop down list to go to a specific inline comment on the page.
I think that if you did this separate pane, it would also help with viewing / editing comments while in edit mode for the page. 
Thank you for raising this suggestion.
We regret to inform you that due to limited demand, we have no plans to implement it in the foreseeable future. In order to set expectations, we're closing this request now. Sometimes potentially valuable tickets do get closed where the Summary or Description has not caught the attention of the community. If you feel that this suggestion is valuable, consider describing in more detail or outlining how this request will help you achieve your goals. We may then be able to provide better guidance.
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