Hi all, I have been silent here so far, but have been working a bit with Randall & Benjamin on our shared webby ambitions, and thought I'll share this one for your interests. At the I Annotate <https://iannotate.org> conference last month I made a simple browser extension to support Web Annotation Selectors in fragment identifiers, as specified in this W3C note <https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/NOTE-selectors-states-20170223/#frags>. A location such ashttps://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Koala&oldid=781295795#selector(type=TextQuoteSelector,exact=fluffy%20ears) <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Koala&oldid=781295795#selector%28type=TextQuoteSelector,exact=fluffy%20ears%29> will scroll to the words /fluffy ears/ and select them.
*Technicalities:* The extension currently only supports TextQuoteSelectors using dom-anchor-text-quote <https://github.com/tilgovi/dom-anchor-text-quote>, which I abstracted through a minimal library I dub dom-anchor-selector <https://github.com/Treora/dom-anchor-selector>, with the intention of adding support for other selector types. I would be glad to have this library moved or rewritten under the Apache Annotator umbrella if there is interest. The conversion between the selector as a javascript object and as a fragment identifier is done by code borrowed from Ivan Herman's converter <http://w3c.github.io/web-annotation/selector-note/converter/>, packaged as a module first by me here <https://github.com/Treora/selector-state-frags>, and again by Randall here <https://github.com/apache/incubator-annotator/tree/master/packages/fragment-identifier> under the Apache Annotator project. *Try it:* For Firefox, available here <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/precise-links/>. For Chromium, I yet only published it on my own server, here <https://temp.treora.com/precise-links.crx> for now. To install, download it and drag&drop the file to your list of extensions (chrome://extensions). To create link to a segment of text, right-click the selection and choose 'Copy link to selected text'. *Improve it:* Extension code is here <https://github.com/Treora/precise-links>, though most improvements are to be done in the dependencies mentioned above. It may be nice to also create a version of this code that people can easily include in their web pages, something I did previously with quoteurl <https://github.com/Treora/quoteurl>. Cheers, Gerben
