Google Chrome. A first function for browsers dedicated to surfing the Internet is going to be offered by the Google company soon for users all over the world, and it's something that no one thought they could see. You probably already know that YouTube allows you to share a link to a certain video clip, which starts playback from a certain second of that clip, well Google Chrome will have something similar, only for web pages, not video clips.
Google Chrome. More precisely, let's say you found an interesting article on the Internet, where there is also a section with important information, well you will be able to share web links that direct people to that section. Following the idea implemented in YouTube, Google Chrome will have something similar, and people will be able to share links to certain areas of a website, be it a section of the text, or any other part relevant to them.
Google Chrome launches a unique feature for browsers
Google Chrome. The idea is not Google's, however, and that's because there is already a project on Github that describes how everything can be done, along with software examples, so the company's engineers just do their own implementation. Even so, we are talking about a function that would be extremely useful for any type of Google Chrome user at the moment, and it is good that in the end the decision was made to offer something like this for the whole world.
When referencing a specific section of a web page, for example as part of sharing that content via email or on social media, it is desirable to be able to link directly to the specific section. If a section is not linkable by a named anchor or element with id, it is not currently possible to share a link directly to a specific section. Users may work around this by sharing screenshots of the relevant portion of the document (preventing the recipient of the content from engaging with the actual web page that hosts the content), or by including extra instructions to scroll to a specific part of the document ( eg "skip to the sixth paragraph"). We would like to enable users to link to the relevant section of a document directly. Linking directly to the relevant section of a document preserves attribution, and allows the user following the URL to engage directly with the original publisher.
Google Chrome. At the moment, the function is only available for Google engineers, but it seems that it will be offered in the Canary versions of the browser in the following weeks. From that point, it remains to be seen if the testing of the function in Google Chrome will be successful, and in a few months we should have it available, including in the final version, in the public builds of the Google browser.
