1970641 - Text-Fragments: Enable creating Text Fragments on Nightly

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, enhancement)

Comment 1

[Jan Jaeschke [:jjaschke]]

Attachment: Bug 1970641 - Text Fragments: Enable creating Text Fragment on Nightly. r=#dom-core!

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/e636731c0bfe
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/e447bad89ba1
Text Fragments: Enable creating Text Fragment on Nightly. r=dom-core,farre

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/d403d235912f
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/9c4847957e97
Revert "Bug 1970641 - Text Fragments: Enable creating Text Fragment on Nightly. r=dom-core,farre" for causing bc failures @ browser_contextmenu.js

Comment 4

[amarc]

Backed out for causing bc failures @ browser_contextmenu.js

• Backout link
• Push with failures
• Failure Log

Comment 5

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/0571080848f1
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/b52dfbb5ef1b
Text Fragments: Enable creating Text Fragment on Nightly. r=dom-core,farre,Gijs

Comment 6

[amarc]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/b52dfbb5ef1b

Comment 7

[Donal Meehan [:dmeehan]]

:jjaeschke could you consider nominating this for a release note? (Process info)
We could include it in the nightly only release notes.

Comment 8

[Jan Jaeschke [:jjaschke]]

Release Note Request (optional, but appreciated)
[Why is this notable]: Allow the user to create links with text fragments by adding a context menu entry option "Copy Link to Highlight" if there is a selection. Opening this text fragment link highlights the same text that was selected and scrolls it into view.
[Affects Firefox for Android]: No, desktop-only for now
[Suggested wording]:
[Links (documentation, blog post, etc)]:
https://web.dev/articles/text-fragments
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/URI/Reference/Fragment/Text_fragments

Comment 9

[Pascal Chevrel (relman team) -> :pascalc]

Note added to the New section of Nightly Desktop 142 release notes with this wording:

Starting with Firefox 142, Nightly builds support creating URLs using Text Fragments. You can generate such a URL by selecting a snippet of text on a page and choosing Copy Link to Highlight from the context menu.

Comment 10

[Pascal Chevrel (relman team) -> :pascalc]

Removed from the Nightly release notes as it's been included for more than 3 cycles now. Feel free to nominate this for a fresh release note once this feature is ready to ride the trains.