alt Hacker NewsOh, you are right!
Hmm .. and the approach already shows its weaknesses when I play with it: When I search for something on the page, it gives me twice as many hits as there are. And jumps around two times to each hit when I use the "next" button.
I wonder if that is fixable.
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fsfod • last Monday at 8:13 PM
GitHub had to solve the same problem when speeding up there code viewer.
https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/cr...
knallfrosch • last Monday at 5:21 PM
One simply needs the Highlight API. I held back, but now even Firefox ESR supports it.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Highlight
All the trickery vanishes and you get first-class CSS support.
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There is a neat `inert` html attribute you can use to disable all interactions as well as hide the text from ctrl+f searches. (Sadly Safari is the weird one out, and does not exclude the content from searches.)
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...