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WICG / scroll-to-text-fragment

Proposal to allow specifying a text snippet in a URL fragment
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Many ways users might not see the yellow #145

Closed jidanni closed 4 years ago

jidanni commented 4 years ago

Visit https://chromestatus.com/feature/4733392803332096 Click the Cat link. See the Yellow. All is working as expected.

Now scroll up or down until the yellow is off the screen.

Now place the cursor in the URL bar and hit RET.

OK for chromium, we always return to where we were browsing (no matter what fancy fragment the URL contains. WAI probably. Fine.)

Trying the same experiment with e.g., just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat#Fighting in Firefox however, always returns to the fragment location, no matter where we scrolled the page.

Conclusions: users will probably see the yellow at least the first time we share a link with them. Maybe... https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1127860#c10

jidanni commented 4 years ago

Also on Android, the slightest budge makes the yellow disappear. OK these are all implementation problems. But does the standard say the yellow should stay around even if the page is budged, etc.?

bokand commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the report. I think this is a decision best left up to the UA so the bugs.chromium.com bug you filed is probably the best place to discuss. I've triaged it so closing this in favour of that.