Pinpointer
Dev tools
browser extension
SHOW HN2018
How HN took it
3 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score -0.01.
Execution: 2 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Good fix for a web usability issue when quoting and referencing documents
From 1 comment
Great fix for one of biggest web usability issues when quoting, and referencing complex documents.
miga on HN
Interesting concept, keep going
From 1 comment
I have installed it and it doesn't work. In the Mozilla addons page it just says "Pinpointer error". In this HN page, it prompts me to select and click a green button, but fails…
severine on HN
Objections
Link is long and needs the extension to view
From 2 comments
Good point.…
Rumperuu on HNIt kind of defeats the point that you need the extension to view the generated links. You may want to add an option to select only from the anchors/ids from the page to generate…
dmortin on HN
Requests broad access to data on all websites
From 1 comment
"It requires your permission to: Access your data for all web sites" I wish Firefox had a permission along the lines of 'Access all data from pages on which I activate the…
insomniacity on HN
Did not work on some pages or addons.mozilla.org
From 2 comments
I have installed it and it doesn't work. In the Mozilla addons page it just says "Pinpointer error". In this HN page, it prompts me to select and click a green button, but fails…
severine on HNContent scripts are disabled on addons.mozilla.org
eat_veggies on HN
Description page unclear about what it does
From 1 comment
You should also give more explanation on the addons pages, I read it and didn't understand what it does until I read this comment.
zouhair on HN
Requests
Add screenshots or a video
From 1 comment
A video or a few screenshots would help me understand how it works better and probably help with the number of installs.
mosselman on HN
Post an example link to try
From 1 comment
You should post such a generated link here as an example, so people can immediately try it by clicking on it.
dmortin on HN
Shorter generated links
From 1 comment
I wanted to try making a browser extension and it seemed weird to me that there didn't seem to exist any means of linking to specific elements on a web page if they hadn't been…
Rumperuu on HN
Narrower permission than access to all sites
From 1 comment
"It requires your permission to: Access your data for all web sites" I wish Firefox had a permission along the lines of 'Access all data from pages on which I activate the…
insomniacity on HN
Questions
Why CSS selector fragment identifiers never took off
From 1 comment
This is really interesting, I'm not sure how I didn't find it before. What I'd like to know is whatever happened to the CSS-selectors-as-fragment-identifiers movement and why it…
Rumperuu on HN
Could XPath be used for selectors
From 1 comment
Would an XPath work for this? Seems like that would be easiest considering Firefox already has built-in support for getting the XPath from an element on the page.
idbehold on HN
Alternatives named
Pinpoint (Safari extension)
From 1 comment
You might want to take a look at https://github.com/karanlyons/pinpoint to see if there's anything there you want to grab, especially around the selector creation:…
karanlyons on HN
Archive.is text selection links
From 1 comment
> there didn't seem to exist any means of linking to specific elements on a web page if they hadn't been given IDs to make a fragment identifier out of There's archive sites that…
Izkata on HN
Cypress unique selector package
From 1 comment
Cypress (the testing framework) has a way to get a short, unique selector for any element on a page. It's even in its own npm package:…
supermdguy on HN