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You might want to take a look at https://github.com/karanlyons/pinpoint to see if there's anything there you want to grab, especially around the selector creation: https://github.com/karanlyons/pinpoint/blob/4b2ec192c0400f26...

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This is really interesting, I'm not sure how I didn't find it before. What I'd like to know is whatever happened to the CSS-selectors-as-fragment-identifiers movement and why it didn't take off. The proposal that inspired that extension[1] was written by Simon St.Laurent and Eric Mayer, so it's not like it was a fringe thing, and they co-chaired a W3C Working Group on the topic[2], but it apparently never published any reports and the last recorded activity was in Jan 2013. Anyone know what happened?

[1] http://simonstl.com/articles/cssFragID.html

[2] https://www.w3.org/community/cssselfrags/

Yeah, I dunno why it never took off, though Meyer was one of the few to star the repo, so I thought that was nice. I was never able to get much traction on my extension either, though some people did port it to every browser, which was also nice.

I think this is just one of those problems that's hard to sell to people.

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