Scroll to search result after navigation

[ricardoboss]

Currently, when clicking on a search result, it just takes the user to the page itself, not the part where the search term is located.

As I see it currently, we have two options to improve the users experience:

• Find the nearest parent heading and modify the anchor of the search result URL to jump to this heading
• Use the new 'scroll-to-text-fragment' feature some browsers already implement (stackoverflow question, caniuse, docs, spec)

The second option is only supported in chromium-based browsers.

[chucker]

Seems like it'll be a while until WebKit supports it, so we should probably go with the first for now?

[ricardoboss]

What about a feature switch based on the detected browser? Implement both and choose at runtime?

[chucker]

We can do that, but you'd have to hardcode user agents. (FWIW, Mozilla doesn't seem to be sure yet if a competing spec is better: https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#fragmention)

[ricardoboss]

Yeah ok, might better to stick to the standards on this one. So nearest parent heading it is?

[chucker]

Yeah, IMHO, just go with nearest for now and reëvaluate in a year or so.