21761 2013-04-22 01:14:19 +0000 Suggestion new feature : reference highlights/underline etc : Problem : People suggest lots of web articles in their site or presentation, but it's very difficult and time consuming to extract what [...] 2013-04-23 05:33:21 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED WORKSFORME http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian ian mike contributor oldest_to_newest 86458 0 contributor 2013-04-22 01:14:19 +0000 Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110525/ Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Referrer: Comment: Suggestion new feature : reference highlights/underline etc : Problem : People suggest lots of web articles in their site or presentation, but it's very difficult and time consuming to extract what section of the referred articles presenter is referring, she doesn't have any tool to highlight in others web pages. Can there be some arguments be passed in the url from hyperlinks like "www.somearticle.org,reference: 'highlight:line30-line50,col:yellow" (or may be something better), so that reader can see the marked lines highlighted when she visits the reference site. Some more features may also helpful: bold,underline etc Regards Chit Posted from: 103.246.241.92 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.31 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/26.0.1410.63 Safari/537.31 86497 1 ian 2013-04-22 22:18:09 +0000 Letting people style other people's pages is a security disaster, unfortunately. Also, it's really easy for pages to change, which breaks this kind of thing really easily. Having said that, there is a technology to kind of do this already, known as XPointer. My recommendation would be to look into that, and try to convince browser vendors to implement that. 86532 2 mike 2013-04-23 05:33:21 +0000 (In reply to comment #1) > Having said that, there is a technology to kind of do this already, known as > XPointer. My recommendation would be to look into that, and try to convince > browser vendors to implement that. Better yet, getting some vendor interest in "CSS Selectors as Fragment Identifiers" would be good: http://simonstl.com/articles/cssFragID.html