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.
Ah, that was not clear to me from the documents I was reading: it sounded like all the things that matched were highlighted but only the first scrolled to. But I might have misread things, of course!
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Happy to improve any text that's unclear.
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I'll think about it. Mostly a matter of how high-fidelity my mental emulation of the algorithms involved was, I think. One drawback of algorithmic specs is reduced comprehensibility. :(
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