The overlooked benefits of anchor linking (to any website!)

Posted by Anders Vindberg in Lunarmedia Blog on the 12 May. 2007 (41,254 views).

Lately I have changed several of my primary bookmarks. For instance, my link to Digg.com is now http://digg.com/#wrapper, iGoogle is https://www.google.com/ig#tabs and Noscope is http://noscope.com/#main - it takes me right to the content im interested in. It seems to be an overlooked benefit of hypertext that it is possible to anchor-link to element id's whether or not it the original purpose of these id's. Come to think about it, maybe we need a new attribute indicating that this specific HTML element is a anchorpoint on to which a user could link to (instead of looking in the source as I have). It could be implemented in the same way RSS-feeds are today - Mozilla are you reading this :)

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Joen said May 13, 2007 10:35 AM

Hehehe, you sneaky one.

Yep, I admit that is quite clever. Very nice.

Anders Vindberg said May 13, 2007 03:53 PM

Hehe, you noticed :) I tried getting this through Digg, but couldn't get enough momentum (only 2 diggs + my own). I think it is valuable knowledge that needs more attention or at least dissemination.