Inter-page link targets as search results

[Mark Reginald James]

Hi,

When I want to point someone to a particular place on a web page I have
to give them the link to that page and say "scroll down to XXX".

I'd like Mozilla to support a text search as an inter-page link target,
so a URL like http://www.site.com/page#?N"XXX" takes you to the page,
does a search for the Nth (default first) occurrence of XXX, and
automatically scrolls down to this point.

Mozilla could also support a "copy position as target" item on the
right button menu so that one can point to a particular point on a web
page and have Mozilla automatically create one of these search-based
targets.

In this case of automatic target creation an alternative to a text
search target is a character offset target (N), with a syntax like:
http://www.site.com/page#?N. Of course a text-based search is more
tolerant to changes to the page.

Mark

[Mark Reginald James]

Sorry, used the word "inter" instead of "intra":

Mark Reginald James wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When I want to point someone to a particular place on a web page I have
> to give them the link to that page and say "scroll down to XXX".
>

> I'd like Mozilla to support a text search as an intra-page link target,

^^^^^