Highlighting position marked on scrollbar

RaVik

Google chrome has a very neat feature that marks the position of matching words on the scrollbar, when using the website-search via CTRL+F.
This made me think of a different application of this concept in Zotero.

Since I use Zotero's Highlighting feature a lot I think it would be great if the position of Highlighted words was highlited on the scrollbar. This way it would be much easier to find highlighted words in long documents.

Gracile

-FYI, Zotero's annotation and highlighting functionality is no longer supported.
Cf. http://www.zotero.org/support/screencast_tutorials/annotation

And: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/22330/highlight-text-on-webpages-before-saving-to-zotero/#Item_2

Highlighting itself in Zotero is no longer supported, and we don't recommend using highlighting or annotations. (Neither have ever synced with the server, for example.)

I believe it's possible to use a third-party tool to highlight a viewed webpage and save that, with modifications, to Zotero.

-That said, the feature you describe would be nice in an updated highlighting function.

RaVik

Not supported? I didn't know that, neither can I understand it, it's an extremely useful function. Modernizing and reintegrating it would have a high priority imho.

Nevertheless thank you for the info.

I have been using the highlighting function of my standard pdf tool and I guess i will have to use a third party tool for websites from now on.

Gracile

Not supported means that you're on your own if there's an issue (due, for example, to a Firefox update which would break the functionality).
But the problem is mainly that it doesn't (and has never) sync. You should find a third-party tool which embed the highlights and annotations directly in the webpage code.
(If you find a good one which is open-source, just post here)