17491 2008-02-22 12:40:32 -0800 ER: Implement XPointer Support 2025-10-01 03:51:06 -0700 1 1 1 Unclassified WebKit XML 528+ (Nightly build) All All RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr-framework/ P4 Enhancement --- 1 jeffschiller webkit-unassigned annevk ap ie2kl43y kennyluck mike waters.boyd webkit oldest_to_newest 71511 0 jeffschiller 2008-02-22 12:40:32 -0800 I would love to be able to use XPointer in my URLs. Ideally it would also be made to work in text/html documents too. Please see http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr-framework/ 72484 1 webkit 2008-03-02 03:40:16 -0800 Confirmed as an enhancement request. 123812 2 ojan 2009-06-01 01:41:38 -0700 Chromium team was recently asked for this feature in the form of enabling scrolling cross-domain iframed content into view. See the whatwg thread starting here: http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-April/019145.html My summary of that thread: Gecko added support for XPointer on XML documents in 2003 and removed it due to lack of adoption from web developers. It's unclear why web developers didn't use XPointer in Firefox, but it's at least partially because it was never implemented for HTML/XHTML pages. XPointer is XPath based, but it's conceivable that once we have XPath support, we could reasonably add other schemes like "css" if we wanted selector-based matching. There was some concern that this somehow increases the ability to do clickjacking, but I really don't buy the argument that this makes clickjacking attacks more effective. 269094 3 waters.boyd 2010-08-25 01:43:31 -0700 Here is a simple use-case that I wanted to use this evening: linking to the 24th paragraph tag of the 23rd blockquote tag of an HTML document on the Web: http://garote.bdmonkeys.net/commandline/index.html#xpointer(/blockquote[23]/p[24]) I wasn't interested in using this from JavaScript, I was quoting a particular passage of an essay and wanted to link to it. Since the author of the original HTML did not include ID attributes on the p tags, I don't have any way to link to the passage with traditional the HTML URL fragment identifier. I wish I could add some simple XPath/XPointer to URLs on (well-formed) HTML documents. 1958396 4 annevk 2023-05-27 06:05:57 -0700 WebKit has an implementation of https://wicg.github.io/scroll-to-text-fragment/ for this purpose. 2147486 5 ie2kl43y 2025-10-01 03:51:06 -0700 (In reply to Anne van Kesteren from comment #4) > WebKit has an implementation of > https://wicg.github.io/scroll-to-text-fragment/ for this purpose. That's not equivalent, as https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100841#c3 well explains. XPaths are usable where no text exists.