Comment by endless1234
6 days ago
Still leaves the problem of not being able to simply send the current URL to someone else and know they'll see the same thing. Of course anchors can solve this, but not automatically
6 days ago
Still leaves the problem of not being able to simply send the current URL to someone else and know they'll see the same thing. Of course anchors can solve this, but not automatically
You probably don't want that most of the time, though. The time I'm most likely to send someone an article is once I've got to the end of it, but I don't want them to jump to the end of the article, I want them to start at the beginning again.
There are situations where you want to link to a specific part of a page, and for that anchors and text anchors work well. But in my experience it isn't the default behaviour that I want for most pages.
Chrome (at least?) solves this via Text Fragments[0] which are a pure client side thing and requires no server or site support.
This URI for example:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...
Links to an instance of "The Referer" narrowed down via a start prefix ("downgrade:") and end suffix ("to origins").
These are used across Google I believe so many have probably seen them.
[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/URI/Reference/F...
Scroll position doesn’t do this because it’s not portable between devices.