[creato]

This is not rare at all, I use it almost every time I link to a wikipedia article, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_method#Examples

That said, it seems easy to make this backwards compatible: if the existing #blah syntax is a valid link, that should take precedence.

FWIW, I think there's way too much cynicism in this thread. My first reaction on seeing the title was "cool! I would use that!".

edit: Hmm, I may have misunderstood the compatibility issue.

[bokan]

> That said, it seems easy to make this backwards compatible: if the existing #blah syntax is a valid link, that should take precedence.

That's indeed how it works. The majority of the compatibility concerns appear to be with apps that a using _custom_ parsing of the fragment to perform app-specific logic, which is a valid concern.

[kiliancs]

Angular 1 does this.

[adrianmonk]

FYI, there's even a Chrome extension that makes this easier:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/display-anchors/po...

[tedmiston]

The parent comment's example includes a trailing equals sign on the fragment that could be used to differentiate (#targetText= vs #targetText).