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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Such a great feature, and very innovative for Firefox. I this new feature will be helpful for use among friends and colleagues. But for anything meant to last any length of time we will still need anchor links, such as id=.

Let's say you've linked to a highlight of a section on a webpage. If the original author of that webpage updates the content (eg Wikipedia), then there's a chance that the highlight will break or refer to the wrong thing.

I think the strength of this feature is in the short-term. If I want a friend or colleague to see a section of a page, I can link straight to it, share it, and they can view it fairly immediately. But as time passes, I wonder how well these links will hold up.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Personally, I don't trust anchor links to continue working forever either. Well, and sometimes they don't work, even when folks open the link fairly immediately (but do then work, when pasted into the URL bar a second time, which I'm guessing happens when the page takes a long time to load the actual content.)

So what I do, is that I always describe the info that I link, as if I was only linking to the whole webpage. That it does take you to the appropriate section of the webpage, is only for added convenience.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I like that idea!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Finally! We're getting the feature that should've been present in HTML 1.0 🤣

It basically eliminates the need for id= attributes when linking which is awesome. Puts control in the hands of the user instead of being limited to whatever the web page creator thought was going to be what people want to link.

Power to the people! 💪

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Great feature!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Text fragment linking already works in the latest version of Firefox, although you'll need to install an extension like this one to create links.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You can also enable this in the latest version of Firefox by navigating to about:config and setting dom.text_fragments.create_text_fragment.enabled to true.