[whatwg] Idea: Links w/o end anchors (is possible)

ppj ppj at concept67.net
Wed Jul 22 11:52:17 PDT 2009


On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:54:19AM -0500, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Julian Reschke<julian.reschke at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> >>
> >> ...
> >> It would be relatively simple to expose a UI that allows one to point
> >> at some text and automatically generate an XPointer to the element
> >> containing that text.  Assuming that you could then generate a url
> >> with that information (which would take browser cooperation), you'd be
> >> golden.
> >> ...
> >
> > For those who don't know it already...: <http://codedread.com/fxpointer/>.
> 
> Ah, excellent.  Now just get that baked into all the browsers, and
> we're good.  ^_^
> 
> ~TJ

That would make a lot of people happy... If it had a usable UI.

-- 
Peter



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