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Re:Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word o... by prepend on Friday February 15, 2019 @06:29AM (#19170029)
It should only cause a problem for pages using “targetText” as an anchor or id where someone would link to “page#targetText”

I would expect that it’s possible for both to work since Chrome’s hack requires the equal sign and its parameters. So with no equal, works as spec. With equal works with hack (that will likely make it into spec).

Even when a page has the targetText anchor and receives the text link param, I think the desired user behavior is to link to the text, not the anchor.

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Re:Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word o... by bokan on Friday February 15, 2019 @11:01AM (#19171923)
The proposal, as currently stated, is to use fragment id processing first. If that fails to find a target, fallback to text matching.

In other words, even if you give an element "id='targetText=something'", this feature wouldn't break that.

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