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Re: Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content

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Post by reportgunner »

newswasboring wrote: post #6
polotics wrote: post #3

Very nice! Hopefully Firefox developers have the bandwidth to implement this as well, and not let Google Chrome have this feature as an "embrace and extend" differentiator. As for MS-Edge, well I guess it must be funny for Microsoft to see they're getting a taste of their own sweet old medicine...

> As for MS-Edge, well I guess it must be funny for Microsoft to see they're getting a taste of their own sweet old medicine... Can you elaborate on this a bit?

Something with internet explorer but I'm not old enough to know what exactly.

Re: Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content

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Post by master-lincoln »

amiga386 wrote: post #16
nanna wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which is to say, that it work on Firefox.

I'm running Firefox right now. It doesn't work. I use Firefox ESR version. Many people do. Many people have also not installed updates released a mere 10 days ago. Be honest and admit that full, reliable support for this feature among all the main browsers is not going to be there until at least next year.

What? It is there already in Firefox latest version. Do you mean it will take that long until the majority of users have it?

If you decide to not update or use a version that is updated less often, that is not the fault of the people working on the software.

Be honest and admit that you are knowingly using a Firefox version that gets major updates only every 52 weeks and still complain about not getting a released feature.

Re: Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content

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Post by [deleted] »

jeroenhd wrote: post #5
polotics wrote: post #3

Very nice! Hopefully Firefox developers have the bandwidth to implement this as well, and not let Google Chrome have this feature as an "embrace and extend" differentiator. As for MS-Edge, well I guess it must be funny for Microsoft to see they're getting a taste of their own sweet old medicine...

This feature seems to work on Firefox as far as I can tell. It used to be one of those Chrome APIs, but now every browser but Safari seems to support them completely. I'm sure the Safari team can quickly implement the last bit of Javascript API when they get the opportunity to.

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Re: Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content

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Post by amiga386 »

master-lincoln wrote: post #22
amiga386 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm running Firefox right now. It doesn't work. I use Firefox ESR version. Many people do. Many people have also not installed updates released a mere 10 days ago. Be honest and admit that full, reliable support for this feature among all the main browsers is not going to be there until at least next year.

What? It is there already in Firefox latest version. Do you mean it will take that long until the majority of users have it? If you decide to not update or use a version that is updated less often, that is not the fault of the people working on the software. Be honest and admit that you are knowingly using a Firefox version that gets major updates only every 52 weeks and still complain about not getting a released fe…

I'm not complaining. What I'm trying to highlight is, as it says on the caniuse.com page, this feature has "Limited availability across major browsers", and that is to be expected and accepted.

If you're thinking of promoting use of this non-standard feature, consider how many people it _doesn't_ work for, rather than thinking "oh and yes even Firefox (asoftendaysagoandonlythedesktopmainlinereleasenottheesrormobileversion) so I'll rush out and proseletyze this amazing feature that clearly everyone can use"

Re: Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content

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Post by JimDabell »

master-lincoln wrote: post #22
amiga386 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm running Firefox right now. It doesn't work. I use Firefox ESR version. Many people do. Many people have also not installed updates released a mere 10 days ago. Be honest and admit that full, reliable support for this feature among all the main browsers is not going to be there until at least next year.

What? It is there already in Firefox latest version. Do you mean it will take that long until the majority of users have it? If you decide to not update or use a version that is updated less often, that is not the fault of the people working on the software. Be honest and admit that you are knowingly using a Firefox version that gets major updates only every 52 weeks and still complain about not getting a released fe…

> If you decide to not update

Browser support isn’t about what version you personally decide to run, it’s about what version your users are running. What Firefox ESR supports is the relevant factor here.

> Be honest and admit

Can you make your point without accusing people of dishonesty?

Re: Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content

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Post by SushiHippie »

klez wrote: post #15
RedShift1 wrote: post #2

Sidenote: please don't hijack CTRL+F on webpages, thanks. Sincerely, the world.

And `/` neither, while you're at it (I'm looking at you, GitHub).

They have a (broken) setting under the accessibility settings which disables all the character key hijacking.

https://github.com/settings/accessibility

But for whatever reason this only seems to work temporarily (if it is already toggled off for you, you need to enable it again, save preferences, then toggle it off, and save preferences) and then it does not hijack '/' for a few minutes.

Re: Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content

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Post by vanviegen »

rkta wrote: post #23

> Text fragments are currently supported in all the browsers. All meaning all the browsers listed in the linked table. These may be the major browsers, but not all of them.

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

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