- From: Reinier Post <rp@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 10:24:46 +0200
- To: Mirsad Todorovac <mtodorov@alu.hr>
- Cc: www-talk@w3.org
On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 03:57:31PM +0200, Mirsad Todorovac wrote: > > > Dear reader, > > As I've been proposing previously, the grown importance of search > engines has brought this proposal back into attention. > > The proposal was to extend the meaning of the URL semantic so it > could address inside a target document, similar to the way <A > NAME="target"> does. > > To clarify, extension would be to allow a form *example syntax*: > > http://ds.internic.org/rfc/rfc1341.txt#/MIME # > ... which should open the document, and position the top of browser > window at first occurence of MIME inside rfc1341.txt I think a more practical way to go about it is to use a page rewriting proxy that inserts anchors into the page. Most browsers jump to anchors in midpage when they appear on a URL. With a different syntax, e.g. http://ds.internic.org/rfc/rfc1341.txt?occ1=MIME it can insert just one anchor in response to the request. Google already does something like this server side. -- Reinier Post TU Eindhoven
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