WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment
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Proposal to allow specifying a text snippet in a URL fragment
15 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 2 stories, 13 comments · first 2020-02-21 · latest 2024-10-25
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Brave has this feature disable due to (rather minor, imho) privacy concerns. https://github.com/WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment/issues/76 https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/17994
comment by vanviegen · 2024-10-25 · in Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content -
…WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment#4: "Integration with W3C Web Annotations" (2019): https://github.com/WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment/issues/4#iss...
comment by westurner · 2024-10-25 · in Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content -
There were some privacy concerns, regarding leaking of user information: https://github.com/WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment/issues/76
comment by dannyobrien · 2022-09-06 · in Deviations from Chromium (features we disable or remove) -
…* *** WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment "Integration with W3C Web Annotations" https://github.com/WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment/issues/4 *** W3C Web Share API & W3C Web Target API https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30449716
comment by westurner · 2022-08-18 · in Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers? -
It's call "Text Fragments", and it was introduced to Chrome more than one year ago. https://github.com/WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment I think it works in Chrome and Edge, but not in Firefox.
comment by gus_massa · 2021-10-06 · in Borges: The Library of Babel [pdf] -
More detail on the spec - https://github.com/WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment/
comment by bobbiechen · 2021-04-19 · in Google introducing feature in Chrome 90 to create links to highlighted text -
More details at https://chromestatus.com/feature/4733392803332096 and https://github.com/WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment/
comment by Arnavion · 2020-12-12 · in Olbers' Paradox -
The extension uses a new URL fragment addition that Chrome has shipped: https://github.com/WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment so these links will work on any Chrome/Chromium-based browser. (in non-Chromium browsers without the extension the link…
comment by bokan · 2020-07-20 · in Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious -
https://github.com/WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment It's a new feature in Chrome 80 https://chromestatus.com/feature/4733392803332096
comment by mtmail · 2020-06-11 · in Weird code for Google Chrome text highlighting -
…it should probably link to the specific page itself. I suggest trying out ScrollToTextFragment https://github.com/WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment if you haven't already I know it was a little controversial and it's currently Chrome-only, but…
comment by satyrnein · 2020-06-09 · in Quotebacks – Quote the Web -
This is called ScrollToTextFragment. See https://github.com/WICG/ScrollToTextFragment I think they just started doing this a few hours ago. I only noticed it in the "Featured Snippet" box. Edit: > I was surprised because Quora can’t know…
comment by awirth · 2020-06-02 · in Tell HN: Google uses a Chrome-specific feature to highlight text on any website -
…for a very long time now when it comes to web standards. That was exactly ghostpepper's point. [1] https://github.com/WICG/ScrollToTextFragment
comment by paulddraper · 2020-02-21 · in Chrome deploys deep-linking in latest build despite privacy concerns -
…halfway down the page and load additional stuff? If so, you can assume these 2 users are friends., https://github.com/WICG/ScrollToTextFragment/issues/76
comment by squeaky-clean · 2020-02-21 · in Chrome deploys deep-linking in latest build despite privacy concerns