diff --git a/content/daily-notes/2024-10-25.md b/content/daily-notes/2024-10-25.md index c94b7631..0f658f0f 100644 --- a/content/daily-notes/2024-10-25.md +++ b/content/daily-notes/2024-10-25.md @@ -10,3 +10,8 @@ TIL about satellite internet: > > Starlink’s satellites fly in very low orbits, around 500km up. That slashes transmission delays, allowing Starlink to offer a connection similar to ground-based broadband. The trade-off is that each satellite can serve only a small area of Earth. To achieve worldwide coverage you therefore need an awful lot of satellites. According to Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, the 6,400 or so Starlink satellites launched since 2019 account for around three-quarters of all the active satellites in space (see chart 3). SpaceX has firm plans to deploy 12,000 satellites, and has applied to launch as many as 42,000. +#### Text fragments +I kept seeing this everywhere and just assumed it was some proprietary Chrome feature. Turns out it's a web standard: [Smarter than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content](https://alfy.blog/2024/10/19/linking-directly-to-web-page-content.html) + +> Historically, we could link to a certain part of the page only if that part had an ID. All we needed to do was to link to the URL and add the _document fragment_ (ID). If we wanted to link to a certain part of the page, we needed to anchor that part to link to it. This was until we were blessed with the **[Text fragments](https://wicg.github.io/scroll-to-text-fragment/)**! +