Yup

So for things like bsky.app/profile/brad... the number of characters change as case changes.

Things like elements being hidden / implicit whitespace (via CSS position/display/etc.) / CSS text-transform / etc. want innerText and I'm mapping between the range API and innerText. www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDA... shows some other cases where length changes.

I'm being given the range via DOM Range so not really on me to segment it in particular as the range itself can be mid grapheme; CSS highlights API is based upon Range which is based upon .textContent ; however, bugs exist for a variety of reasons when crawling the DOM and innerText better

I wish more state machine patterns allowed this easily

We loved that idea at Socket as well so much we turned it into a product with optimize. Different goals a bit but similar

Kind of? If your anchor is after your positioned element in HTML it won't be found via CSS.

Gift link,

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...