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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The point was that text fragments, link fragments and even "search for the phrase X" are things that are brittle and require software support that's not necessarily a given. Having to enable experimental features of adding extensions are far too much hassle for the average user.

I honestly don't see what "baggage" paginated formats have. If you don't like pagination, turn it off in your PDF viewer. That's much easier to do than to get all software in your tool chain to work correctly with text fragments.

Not a bug of text fragments.

This is a pretty foolish statement. It's totally immaterial "who" is at fault if the feature doesn't work. You did not manage to send a working text fragment over Lemmy. Doesn't matter what in the chain screwed up.

I can tell you the page to turn to via a phone call or even in person. Try sending a text fragment by telling it to someone. Text fragments are a nice little feature but far too technical to adequately replace pagination in all circumstances.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago

How often are you in the scenario that you you're on a phone call and need to tell someone where something is in a document versus communicating with them online where you can send a link though? Every work meeting I've been in for the past nearly a decade now has been through something like Teams, Slack, Zoom, etc. where I can send text.

Also PDF viewers are the baggage in the scenario. Everyone uses web browsers everyday. PDF viewers are the odd one out in the majority of people's "tool chains".