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Old 11-06-2007, 03:36 PM   #7
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i've responded in the original thread.

first here:
> https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...217#post112217

then here:
> https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...451#post112451

and just recently, here:
> https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...962#post112962

i see no reason for a new thread, and won't repeat my posts here:

the links above are one example of solving the problem
in a digital environment, of course. but they only work
because the target-file had "i.d." references coded into it.
without such referents, it's difficult to attack this task...

however, there's no reason browsers can't be improved
with a simple mechanism that let you _link_ to a page,
adding a "search phrase" which the browser acted upon.

that is, you could link to this page:
> http://z-m-l.com/go/myant/myantp111.html
but also append the search-phrase after it:
> http://z-m-l.com/go/myant/myantp111.html?sp="don't see how"
and have the browser:
(1) load the page, and
(2) execute the search,
(3) locate you right around an intended spot.

indeed, it might even be child's play for a web-browser
plug-in programmer to code a plug-in to do this now...

the advantage -- that you could link to any phrase
on any page, even if the author of that page hadn't
coded any i.d. references -- is huge, seems to me...

otherwise, your system depends on other people
having done the work you wish them to have done,
and that's never gonna prove to be a tenable solution.

-bowerbird
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