174697 - Everything Can be a Link with Mozilla's window.getSelection() Method and the W3C DOM Range API

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[burtonator]

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>  If you often find yourself browsing large, text-heavy web pages and needing
> to link to specific portions of the text (whether for personal reference, to
> be able to point a friend or colleague to a quote or a piece of information,
> or for any other reason), you've probably seen the value first-hand in
> accommodating users with named anchors (e.g. <a name="anamedanchor">a named
> anchor "anamedanchor"</a>, linkable using <a href="#anamedanchor">to the named
> anchor named "anamedanchor"</a>) sprinkled liberally throughout your HTML
> source.

It should be easy to support this as a native Mozilla feature.

I might do this work myself shortly.  I am registering this here as a tracking bug.

Would it make sense to copy all linking blogs?

Comment 1

[Cees T.]

That sounds like a built-in In-Page Bookmark function. Which would be really
useful for those long webpages without anchors.

Set In-Page Bookmark:

javascript:void(InPageBookmark=pageYOffset)

Go To In-Page Bookmark:

javascript:if (typeof InPageBookmark=='undefined'){alert('No in-page bookmark.
Use Set In-Page Bookmark tool.
(bookmarklets.com)')}else{scrollBy(0,InPageBookmark-pageYOffset)}

Comment 2

[Cees T.]

Sorry, I misunderstood. Basically you want an auto text search if the anchor
isn't found. That's quite brilliant imho. No need to store an extra attribute in
the bookmarks file (though #@y,x added to the URL could work too).

Comment 3

[Cees T.]

I think https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2679/ does this.