Hi there! We created an open source framework for Ctrl + F that selects buttons on the page vs. only text and lets you press enter to navigate to them. It's open source and it lets you navigate tools like Gmail, Github, and yes, even tools like Dev.to without touching your mouse!
YipYip
YipYip is an always-on search assitant that turns Gmail (and any other website) into a keyboard-first product.
Just type to search.
YipYip highlights any buttons or links in the page matching your search.
Press Tab to jump through the matches.
Press Enter to select the current match.
Voila!
Video Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7wGtyeEoKQ
Extension store listings
Google Chrome Extension
Firefox Extension
Edge Add-On (Coming Soon)
How it works
When a user types in the YipYip search bar on a webpage, YipYip recursively scans through the webpage's DOM node tree to find all nodes which match the users query. Whether a node matches the query or not is determined by detecting if any text within the node includes the user's query or if an attribute of the node includes the user's query.
Not all attributes a node may have are relevant for our purposes, thus, YipYip only searches a specific list of…
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