colinwalker
colinwalker
Tom Critchlow, along with Toby Shorin, has been working on a way to better present quotations from other sites. They came up with Quotebacks - a JavaScript library and Chrome extension to grab quotations then generate the required code to embed them on your site or blog. All you need to... colinwalker.blog
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@bix I like the idea but, as I say, think building something for a specific browser is bad. It wasn't so much their tool but how it relates to what I've been doing and what else I could do natively.

What I would be excited about, however, is cross-browser support for ScrollToTextFragment, I think that would be extremely handy.

The indieweb already has fragmentions but having this supported as a URL based protocol without the need for any custom code would be great.

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colinwalker
colinwalker

@bix Not pressing but it's always good to make things look nice ;)

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devilgate
devilgate

@colinwalker Looks interesting, but I'm not sure where the :~: delimiter that you refer to comes in. And that kind of thing is a bit difficult to search for.

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colinwalker
colinwalker

@devilgate The :~: is used in the URL to indicate the text to scroll to.

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devilgate
devilgate

@colinwalker Oh, I see, it's to do with the autoscroll thing. I thought it might be to do with the Quotebacks, and I couldn't see how.

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