3. Privacy. It makes sense to hide the text query string from even the destination page. Without the :~: syntax and fragment stripping, the page would be able infer sensitive information e.g. a user's search terms.
Why is this needed for table cells? Is there an explanation somewhere? Same thing for list items. Same thing for discontinuous paragraphs...
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In the case of tables, you might want to highlight a column which won't match the DOM order of cells. Discontinuous text can be separated by an ad, you don't want to select the ad text in that case. We're prepping a doc to better document the cases we want to support.
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Users can't select a column (except in Firefox), last I checked, so can't generate a URL to select it to start with. Yes, a doc documenting the use cases would be very helpful here. I think it would avoid a lot of talking past each other. The use cases I want to support are:
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