It is established and hereby declared that cursed be any person who willfully publishes, or through inaction allows to be published, on the World Wide Web (WWW) a document, collection of documents, or service which dynamically constructs and delivers documents whose intended purpose is historical or informational reference, and which does not, in the rendered HTML thereof, provide appropriate unique identifiers in the form of HTML `id` attributes, which may be used to construct hyperlinks by which a user may navigate from another WWW document directly to the aforementioned section of content.

@sivy I've got a script that adds these to headings if they're missing 😅

@mauve for your source you mean, or after it's published?

Doesn't help one share a permalink if it's after it's published…

@sivy I have a "reader mode" in my browser that applies it so users of the browser can share those links. 😅 I also add ids in any static site generators of course.

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@sivy in a pinch you can also link to text fragments these days. We shouldn't need to go through all this hassle.

oleb.net/2020/text-fragments/

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