- From: Lukas Kahwe Smith <smith@pooteeweet.org>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:03:20 +0200
Hi, Currently when linking to specific places in a document one is limited to the places the original author made linkable via an anchor <a> tag. While this is a nice touch (though not well exposed by modern browsers), the reality is that most of the time the person who writes a document that links to the original page has a better idea of where exactly he wants to link to. So I think it should be possible to "dynamically" get an implicit anchor on essentially anything. This would be specific DOM id's or any css selector or xpath expression. Browsers could be extended to not only feature a "copy link" context menu, but also "copy link to element", which would do all the nitty gritty work of pointing to the element on which the context menu was invoked. I searched this list to determine if something like this was suggested before, the only relevant post [1] I found does not seem to actually discuss the same at closer inspection. I just joined this list and I have not done a super indepth study on the web about this. So I hope I am not boring you all with an old idea. regards, Lukas Kahwe Smith smith at pooteeweet.org [1] http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2007-April/010801.html
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