[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 17180] New: ER: Scrolling to fragment identifiers

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http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17180

           Summary: ER: Scrolling to fragment identifiers
           Product: WebKit
           Version: 525+ (Nightly build)
          Platform: Macintosh
        OS/Version: Mac OS X 10.5
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: Layout and Rendering
        AssignedTo: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
        ReportedBy: contact at nickshanks.com


I would like to suggest a couple of related enhancements to fragment
identifiers:

1) Don't scroll so that the element containing the identifier is at the top of
the screen, but so that the fragment is about 10% or 25% of the way down the
view port. This is where people naturally look, they don't look a few pixels
under the tab bar. You can make this an option for web browsers, rather than
the default.

2) Highlight the fragment element by dimming the rest of the page for a few
seconds. If you dim the page, then fade back to normal a few seconds later
(similar to Safari's ‘find’ function), the user's attention will be drawn
to the relevant elements. Obviously this feature would only work for code like
<div id="content">content goes here</div> and not empty elements like <a
name="page-top"></a>

These two features, combined, will vastly improve the user experience of
navigating pages with fragment identifiers in the URL.


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