Programmatic API

[brillout]

As the author of a React/Vue framework (Vike) I need to be able to programmatically invoke the browser's native behavior upon a text fragment #:~:text=, for example:

window.scrollTo('#:~:text=someText')

A workaround is location.hash = '#:~:text=someText' but it's error prone (e.g. leads to infinite loops when done in a popstate event) and pollutes the browser history.

Is that on the radar?

Related: vikejs/vike#2114.

[bokand]

I did a bunch of work on the spec in #225 that I hope makes this at least better defined. The example here is probably the easiest to parse. Per spec, I think the most straightforward would be to use replaceState if you don't want it to change history state.

That said, this doesn't currently work (in Chrome at least, haven't tried in other browsers) since I wasn't able to change Chrome's implementation to match the improved spec. Unfortunately I'm not working in this area anymore so am unable to do so in the foreseeable future.