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Re:Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word o... by deepstream on Friday February 15, 2019 @08:08AM (#19170561)
This is a good point, which I didn't get until your comment. I think they should surface this on that page, because it seems everyone is thinking this will be a big clash, but as you say, if someone shares a sentence, the likelihood is low.

To double check, does this means things like,

  https://www.spa/#!/path/to/view
Can become

  https://www.spa/#!/path/to/view&targetText=percent%20encoded
The only part I don't get about the likelihood and this extension is how it interacts with these kind of hash routes.

I haven't thought that much about the next part, but how do people feel about the following?

  web+text://https://www.spa/#!/route/to/view#targetText=percent%20encoded
or something. Rather than extending URLs vertically, extend horizontally into a different protocol the URI of which can encode the syntax elegantly.
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Re:Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word o... by sokoloff on Friday February 15, 2019 @10:22AM (#19171574)
I think that's more risky in that most browsers and many intermediate proxies or other traffic inspectors are likely to have special casing around http: (at least) and https: and for most traffic to be over http(s): and a tiny sliver over web+text: seems fraught with more peril than a (fairly small and intention-aligned) abuse of #fragments. Even mail agents, markdown processors, and other text-display applications often have special casing to turn http(s) URLs into touchable/clickable links.

Page authors are unlikely to use web+text: if it means cutting off old browsers from access.

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Re:Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word o... by croddin on Friday February 15, 2019 @10:18AM (#19171534)
Googles’s fragment solution should gracefully degrade to behaving like the normal link in other browsers (as long as there isn’t some fragment conflict) but creating a new pseudo protocol would have to be supported by each browser to even get to the site.
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Re:Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word o... by Robin_Message on Saturday February 16, 2019 @03:01AM (#19177630)
You could use two hashes like that and stick with http. I reckon browsers would cope, and you could strip the second one.
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