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

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

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Post by dakiol »

Is it just me or whenever I open a link with a text fragment, the page is loaded just fine but it takes one or two seconds to actually scroll down to the highlighted text?

Usually in Chrome and when visiting sites that are not 100% pure text (e.g., bloated Confluence docs)

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

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Post by 0xTJ »

jeroenhd wrote: post #4
RedShift1 wrote: post #2

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

Sometimes they "need" to, because rather than load 100kB of text, they'll chunk 100kB of text over ten JSON requests and searching requires backend intervention. If you make every web page an app, the browser doesn't work right anymore so you force yourself to build a browser within a browser!

Even if it's for that, it's infuriating, and a terrible pattern. Just as I expect CTRL+click to open in a new tab, there are some interactions that should be left alone; it's annoying to me that they even can be overridden.

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

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Post by dspillett »

RedShift1 wrote: post #2

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

[for those just reading the comments having not read TFA: it isn't talking about changing default find behaviour within a page, but the feature to specify text to scroll to and highlight within a link URL so the user doesn't need to ctrl-F when you refer to a small part of a larger page]

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

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Post by RamRodification »

dveeden2 wrote: post #24

With a addon this is much more usable, not sure why there isn't a selection-to-text-fragment-link functionality builtin to Firefox...(same for other browsers?) https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/text-fragment/

According to the post

> If you’re using Chrome, simply highlight some text, right-click, and you’ll find the “Copy link to highlight” option in the context menu

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

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Post by extraduder_ire »

dveeden2 wrote: post #24

With a addon this is much more usable, not sure why there isn't a selection-to-text-fragment-link functionality builtin to Firefox...(same for other browsers?) https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/text-fragment/

Support for the feature itself was only added in a very recent mainline firefox release. Like, less than one or two months ago.
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