Great news today, as Chrome will be adding a new and amazing feature. Let’s dive right in to know what it is all about.
The internet is all about sharing content, and of recent we got another amazing tool for helping us do just that.
Before now, you could only copy links and share links to full webpages, or to specific pre-defined “anchor” points within them.
These new “text fragments” offered to let us make custom links that highlighted particular passages within a page itself.
Recently, Chrome developers are working to bring us the logical next step: the ability to link to pictures and other media on a page in much the same way.
We first got to know text fragments when they appeared in Google Search results, pointing us right to where on a page the information we were looking for resided.
It wasn’t long before we were creating links individually with the help of an available Chrome extension, and then finally seeing that functionality get built right into the browser itself.
Importance Of Chrome’s “Copy Link To Highlight Feature” Image and Video Support
This new development is trying to augment a related system for pointing to media on a site, obviously.
A new feature has been added which we can now share the URLs for specific images or videos, but this would allow users to the see them in the context of a larger webpage(via Chrome Story).
Making this feature come alive is a little bit more of a technical challenge than working with just text, and presents some interesting security concerns for devs to work around, but the utility of it seems obvious.
There’s no particular name for this yet, and the documentation just describes it as “CSS selector fragment anchors” . Which doesn’t really sound right.
Hopefully the feature will be available soon and we’ll be able to try it for ourselves.
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