[iafan]

I know that the best available option in today's world is to make a screenshot of a selection to point to a specific point on a page, but heck, this seems to be an extreme waste of bytes when the only thing you want to do is to point someone to a specific word or a phrase...

The closest implementation that comes to my mind is GitHub's ability to select a line or a range of lines that would immediately update the hash and give you a permalink to the selection, e.g.: https://github.com/iafan/LinkToSelection/blob/master/lib/Lin... , and I think this is one of the small but handy features people love GitHub for, but it has a very specific use case and doesn't allow one to point to a range in the string, or just one character that, for example, is causing a problem.