Re:Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious
by tomayac on Monday July 20, 2020 @12:40PM
(#23899496)
The extension’s author here. Just wanted to let you know that—apart from Chrome—it’s also available for Edge, and a beta version based on a (still unfinished) polyfill for Firefox. The same code also works on Safari 14, we hope to release it there, too. Install links: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/link-to-text-fragment#in...
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Re:Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious
by brlewis on Monday July 20, 2020 @12:48PM
(#23899580)
How is it different from this bookmarklet?
Re:Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious
by bokan on Monday July 20, 2020 @01:01PM
(#23899728)
The big difference is that the original intended text is encoded in the URL. An element-id fragment is better than just a URL but will often be less granular than the exact text being linked (e.g. a heading).
If you're looking to link a citation to a statement, having the text is far more useful since the person following the link doesn't have to now find the statement in a potentially large and broad section. Also, if the page has since changed and the text no longer substantiates the cited claim, that'll be immediately apparent.
Re:Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious
by brlewis on Monday July 20, 2020 @01:13PM
(#23899866)
The extension needs to be installed by both the creator and the receiver of the URL with the original intended text encoded into it?
Re:Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious
by bokan on Monday July 20, 2020 @01:26PM
(#23899986)
The extension uses a new URL fragment addition that Chrome has shipped: https://github.com/WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment so these links will work on any Chrome/Chromium-based browser. (in non-Chromium browsers without the extension the link will load but the fragment wont be recognized)
The hope is that this is useful and adopted by other browser engines and links like this would eventually be interoperable.