I use these for footnotes, eg in [1] which had a lot of footnotes. Ghost and other blogs don't support footnoting well afaict. Sometimes I miss restructured text, which did this quite well, markdown alas does not.
Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content
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#42Re: Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content
#43Can you disable it in firefox?
shift+i -> "permissions" -> disable "override keyboard shortcuts"
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
But even then I shouldn't need to do it for every website that does this.
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#45Re: Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 (asoftendaysagoandonlythedesktopmainlinereleasenottheesrormobileve…
Is there an alternative? Do users with browser that don't have support have a worse experience when these links are used? I thought no...
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#47Re: Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
> Can you make your point without accusing people of dishonesty?
I was just returning the favor to amiga386 to make them see this is not a normal form of communication. They lead with
> 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.
When I think they meant to say support for most users isn't there until next year. Because all major browsers have support already now in the current version.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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?
> Can you make your point without accusing people of dishonesty? I was just returning the favor to amiga386 to make them see this is not a normal form of communication. They lead with > 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. When I think they meant to say support for most users isn't there until next year. Because…
> When I think they meant to say support for most users isn't there until next year.
They did say that though:
> full, reliable support
“Reliable” in the context of browser support means widely supported in the browser versions people actually use – i.e. web developers can rely upon it being there. Something that is only available in a browser version released last week is not “reliable” in the sense of browser support.
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#50It would be nice to have similar feature like this, but to highlight rectangle (instead of text) on the page to focus viewer on some specific area. I send screenshots with highlight quite often.
or every document on the web may have hierarchical semantic structure, so you can link/refer to a heading in any depth. eg #1 → first chapter; #1.2 → first chapter second heading; #1.2.1 → first chapter second heading first paragraph; #1.2.1.5 → first chapter second heading first paragraph 5th sentence. it won't neccessary be chapter-heading-paragraph-sentence 4-fold structure - just wanted to illustrate in conventional language -, but any level of structure.
…why not put a css-selector in the link?