scroll-to-text-fragment VS omnibookmarks

There were some privacy concerns, regarding leaking of user information: https://github.com/WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment/issues/76

This doesn't make sense. There is no mystery about how scroll-to-text fragments should work. They're documented e.g. here: https://github.com/WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment

It's call "Text Fragments", and it was introduced to Chrome more than one year ago. https://github.com/WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment

I think it works in Chrome and Edge, but not in Firefox.

I kind of want to be able to upvote this post three times: once for the actual projects (which sound really cool!); once for introducing me to the term/joke "rakit"; and once for teaching me about the scroll to text fragment API – I had no idea that was a thing!

The most disturbing example of this I found recently is the new auto-highlighting feature Google proposed to the W3C then YOLO'd into chromium before people's concerns were met, because they have control of it and don't need industry approval to get that to happen. Here's an example convo with some of these topics raised.

Per web.dev, it is for Chromium based-browsers and other browsers have not signaled intent to support. This is quite a rabbit hole. Very recently there has been some spec discussion if you follow links in the pages I've linked here.

For quickly loading bookmarks, I made an extension that allows you to open or add a bookmark by typing a keyword for it into the address bar:

https://github.com/binarynate/omnibookmarks

I use it constantly (probably hundreds of times per day) to load common pages I use for running by business and living my life.

I recently decided to open source this extension that I've been using personally for over a year. I use it heavily, but it especially comes in handy when I'm answering support emails for the product I develop, because it allows me to quickly pull up URLs (to documentation, support pages) to include in the support emails. The extension itself is extremely simple (less than 150 LOC), which makes it easy for others to visually check and audit:

https://github.com/binarynate/omnibookmarks/blob/74d140092a4...

Like the README mentions, I created this extension as a replacement for Hashmem, which offered the same mechanism for saving pages. I have to give credit to Hashmem for coming up with the simple way of opening and adding bookmarks, which Omnibookmarks emulates. However, the Hashmem extension was removed from the Google Chrome Store over a year ago for a policy violation, its code was obfuscated, and it required permission to send data to its own servers is Russia. So, I created Omnibookmarks as a simple open source replacement with a focus on security and transparency.