Tag: Fragmention

Replied to Links to Text Fragments (cogdogblog.com)

I feel father comfortable swimming in HTML and writing the stuff by hand (I thought at one time everyone would learn to write HTML). It never tops being refreshing to learn one more trick.

Source: Links to Text Fragments by Alan Levine

I never knew that there was an option to select a link to the highlighted text in the browser. For years I have been using the Fragmentation plugin in WordPress, I guess this makes that obsolete?

I really like the prospect of pointing to a particular section of text when linking out from my blog. I like(d) Hypothesis for this, but find the workflow of creating a highlight that I would then link to a bit tedious and time consuming.

Replied to Fragmentions for Better Highlighting and Direct References on the Web by Chris Aldrich (Boffosocko)

Fragmention is a portmanteau word made up of fragment and mention (or even Webmention), but in more technical terms, it’s a simple way of creating a URL that not only targets a particular page on the internet, but allows you to target a specific sub-section of that page whether it’s a photo, paragraph, a few words, or even specific HTML elements like

or on such a page. In short, it’s like a permalink to content within a web page instead of just the page itself.

Another fantastic post Chris. I love the notion of mentioning a specific part of the text and find it particular useful to link back to sections from my longer posts or parts of my newsletters.

I find it interesting to consider alongside Hypothesis and wonder what the different use cases are?

I have added the plugin, but found the documentation associated with Kartik Prabhu’s additional code confusing, so left it. Is this what Khurt was referring to?

I look forward to seeing where all this grows?

Aaron

P.S. I thought that Flickr sent webmentions (as it is attached to Bridgy), however I was clearly wrong. Sorry.