purpleslurple
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purpleslurple
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10 months ago xPunt (edit to view source)
The original idea for Quip, really.
Visual-Meta facilitates this:
This will enable advanced functionality such as copying text and pasting it as a citation in one step https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Visual-Meta%3A-An-approach-to-Surfacing-Metadata-Hegland/ecf07f13cc4499b0fca63d2752398dc53623260c?__hstc=240216348.2fc13b09b991acfdabf42196c606b310.1694258757211.1694258757211.1694258757211.1&__hssc=240216348.1.1694258757211&__hsfp=387079314#:~:text=This%20will%20enable%20advanced%20functionality%20such%20as%20copying%20text%20and%20pasting%20it%20as%20a%20citation%20in%20one%20step
STTF could too. Maybe.
Some history:
Peter Jones and I talked about this prospect circa 2003, in the context of MTOT. (Here's a link to Peter's message to whatwg: [whatwg] Idea: Links w/o end anchors (is possible), where he mentions our discussion (and incorrectly states that I had said "100 characters to uniquely id a document" - MTOT contends that it is "8-10 words"). Sadly, there was silence from whatwg.
In the above message, Peter mentions xPunt (originally named xPunter, which was his take on a solution, and wisely points us to its details, via Web Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20070701121314/www.concept67.net/blog/?page_id=141. There we get the link to the announcement of xPunter on blueoxen a few years prior: http://collab.blueoxen.net/forums/tools-yak/2006-06/msg00033.html (which I can't seem to find in Web Archive).