Spent quite some time looking for a JavaScript library that would allow me to select a part of a web page and send a link to that selection to someone else. I know there are scripts like AnchorJS that allow to deep-link sections and paragraphs, but didn't find any that would allow linking to a specific word, phrase or image.<p>So failing to find what I need, I wrote my own thing: https://github.com/iafan/LinkToSelection<p>Can't believe I'm the only one who thought about this — it seems to be super-useful for any documentation pages. Do you know of other implementations?
Not many javascript stuff comes to mind, but you might find more implementations if you search for a specific problem you were trying to solve. The closing javascript thing that comes to mind is the letmegooglethatforyou site, an extreme way to point out the search button.....<p>From a personal point of view, Sometimes I would just email myself a link to a webpage if I wanted to view it later on mobile or vice versa.<p>In technical support over email, I used to send customers a link to a kb article or a pdf and a page number. I never had to go beyond something along the lines of, here is a link, you forgot to do step 4 or follow the instructions under the known resolution section.<p>From a bug reporting point of view, Most people would send a picture and send the dropbox link over slack/email.
Dropbox has a little popup with the link to the image after taking a screenshot so it is very easy and fast.<p>It reminds me of Onenote and Evernote feature to copy snippets from a webpage, though I never tried to share the content.<p>While not directly similar, The code for searching for specific parts of a webpage seems similar to some web scraping solutions. Ie, here is a webpage, I want to scrape this selection for all similar pages,etc.