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Anchors reveal by Xavier “DaScritch” Mouton-Dubosc

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Review by Julian McGill
by Julian McGill, 6 years ago
Works, however, it remains a very simple add ons, with no features.

Developer response

posted 6 years ago
Yes. Simplicity matters : Do a job, but do it well ;)
5 reviews
  • by Quisquose, 10 months ago
    I've been using Display #Anchors for several years, but I never really liked it that much (I only continued using it because anchor display is such an important feature for me). I found its anchors difficult to see, especially on longer complex web pages. However I recently found out about Anchors Reveal and I decided to try it.

    The visibility of the anchors in Anchors Reveal is SO much better than Display #Anchors, and you even have a choice of colours! although it would be nice to have one configurable extra option that lets the user specify a background colour and what text should be used for the anchors (for example if the user wants to replace full anchor names with some different text, or use a symbol instead).

    I have now permanently switched to using Anchors Reveal.

    There are a couple of issues though:

    1. I cannot find any hotkey to toggle Anchors Reveal on and off. The Display #Anchors extension has a hotkey, but annoyingly it is hard-coded, so you cannot change it to a hotkey of your own choosing (and the default hotkey that it uses clashes with a feature in my browser).

    It would be extremely helpful if Anchors Reveal added an option for a hotkey (user-specified) to allow toggling anchors on and off from the keyboard.

    2. The Anchors Reveal toolbar button does not visually indicate whether anchors are currently off or on. It would be better if the toolbar button had 2 different states / icons to reflect the current anchor display status.

    This is useful when you are on a web page with no anchors, otherwise you can get confused thinking that Anchors Reveal is not switched on or is not working (when in fact it IS on, it's just that the web page has no anchors to display). This confusion is removed if you can see from the toolbar button that anchors are on, even if there are no anchors shown on the current web page.

    This extension has not been updated for a while (because it mostly already does what it needs to) but I do hope that the developer will consider adding the features that I suggested above (especially the user-configurable hotkey).

    Developer response

    posted 10 months ago
    Thank you very much for your returns.

    This project started as a trial on what would be later webextensions. And yes, I let it because it seemed to work correctly for me. I'm very happy that users want more, but alas, I don't have enough spare time. I usually do a bit work on it when the extension platform is doing an incompatible move.

    You did some really interesting feature requests, so I've noted there :

    - Add a parametrable hotkey ( https://github.com/dascritch/anchors-reveal/issues/27 ) . A non trivial difficulty will be to find a default hotkey sequence that won't overleap with a usual browser one, any other webextension or any usual web surfing accessibility feature. May be you've got an idea ?
    - Add a visual indication in the icon ( https://github.com/dascritch/anchors-reveal/issues/28 ) . Yes, you're right. By example, really a few websites written in React have an anchor. As this very page (responding to a review). But I'm not sure I have any indication about the displayed webpage in the browser, when you change the tab.
    - Have a visual indicator in a webpage when no anchor is shown ( https://github.com/dascritch/anchors-reveal/issues/29 ). In fact, we should have both icon indicator, and in the webpage.

    This project is open-source. You may help it, by example to provide translation in your native language.

    I will try to resolve your feature requests, add translations or any other improvement. Your returns fuel motivation, and so thank you for taking time to write your comments.
  • by DiverSant, 5 years ago
  • by K-mik@Z, 7 years ago
    merci, très utile pour moi ^^
  • by Firefox user 13329416, 7 years ago
    There are a lot of anchor showing plugins, but the killer feature I could only find here is the position absolute ensuring the page doesn't jump around when you turn it on and off.