3 posts tagged ‘URL’
Hypertextual Writing and Social Media
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John Gruber (Mastodon): It also brought to mind how social media has largely kneecapped true hypertextual writing by not enabling it. You can, of course, add links to web pages in social media posts on any of the various basically-the-same-concept-as-Twitter platforms like X, Threads, Bluesky, or Mastodon, but you do so by pasting raw URLs […]
How to Highlight Text Fragments When Linking
Paul Kafasis: In recent months, I’ve begun to notice that results from web searches often highlight specific text on the page to which they’re linking. The web page is also scrolled to the relevant content. It’s quite helpful! A quick investigation showed this is accomplished by appending a bit of code, #:~:text= to the URL […]
Link Unshortener Updates
Jeff Johnson: Link Unshortener 9.0 adds a convenient list of all your installed web browsers so that you can open a link in any browser with one click or keypress. And if you set Link Unshortener itself as your default web browser in System Preferences, then whenever you click a link in an external app […]