Re:I wish I could read Wikipedia like this
by 3rd3 on Thursday April 17, 2014 @06:34AM
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Implementing it in HTML/CSS/JS certainly poses an interesting problem because, as far as I know, one cannot directly access individual, dynamically broken lines of text. One would probably have to wrap each word in a container and keep track of the absolute positions.
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Re:I wish I could read Wikipedia like this
by assaflavie on Thursday April 17, 2014 @06:55AM
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Very true. I got a rough POC of this, implemented using the technique in this answer: http://stackoverflow.com/a/22816419/11208
(just with divs instead of images)
It's very brittle though. It relies on knowing the line-height, calculating the line in which the highlighted word sits, accounting for the existence of vertical scroll-bars... not trivial.
Ah, that was surprisingly easy: http://jsfiddle.net/5p92U/
Or am I missing something?
Edit: Yes, I do. It does not work together with images on the right side: http://jsfiddle.net/Nup2F/
Re:I wish I could read Wikipedia like this
by Adirael on Thursday April 17, 2014 @06:57AM
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You can use getSelection() to do that, but it doesn't work everywhere. [0] [1]
[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7563169/detect-which-wor...