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It's been said that the maze-like library in "The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco was inspired by the Library of Babel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Name_of_the_Rose#:~:text=T....

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The character Jorge of Burgos is also named after Borges.

What's this syntax from? Is there a browser that implements it as a content-relative anchor? It looks convenient.

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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.

Thanks!

Indeed, it seems to be just those for now:

https://caniuse.com/url-scroll-to-text-fragment

In a Chrome browser on desktop, you can right click and "Copy Link to Highlighted Text". That's the context (hah, pun) where I know it from. It's really useful!

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