Re:Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word o...
by abalone on Friday February 15, 2019 @02:49PM
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> I don't think many articles have a lot of repeating sentences.
This misrepresents the comment you're replying to. The case I gave was "linking to a single word." Articles have a lot of repeating words.
I can see users highlighting and linking to a key word or two in the section they want to link to. This is going to result in a broken link if it's not unique. This is not an edge case. It's not even mentioned as a potential issue in the spec.
Should the browser at least warn that this is going to result in a broken link as the doc currently stands? Should it disable the feature until sufficiently unique text has been selected? Should it just silently let you copy a broken link and chalk it up to PEBKAC (which is what the spec seems to imply)?
This misrepresents the comment you're replying to. The case I gave was "linking to a single word." Articles have a lot of repeating words.
I can see users highlighting and linking to a key word or two in the section they want to link to. This is going to result in a broken link if it's not unique. This is not an edge case. It's not even mentioned as a potential issue in the spec.
Should the browser at least warn that this is going to result in a broken link as the doc currently stands? Should it disable the feature until sufficiently unique text has been selected? Should it just silently let you copy a broken link and chalk it up to PEBKAC (which is what the spec seems to imply)?
Needs more thought IMHO.