I've often wanted a way to reference web documents at the paragraph level in general, since most web documents don't include many anchors (<a name="here"/>), th

I've often wanted a way to reference web documents at the paragraph level in general, since most web documents don't include many anchors (<a name="here"/>), that you can use in the URL with a "#" ("#here"). One solution I tried was to write a greasemonkey script that would add anchors to all headings, using their text as the name. Another solution is to google for a unique string in the paragraph you want, then use google's cached version of the page. This highlights the text, but doesn't actually add an anchor. eg: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:L9bpHCeNlSYJ:www.paulgraham.com/softwarepatents.html+%22The+only+real+role+of+patents,+for+most+startups,+is+as+an%22 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:L9bpHCe... A webservice to add anchors for every paragraph is pretty simple (probably several already exist) - but I think it would be a great addition to the html standard itself so that, in effect, each paragraph gets an URL.