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#112> I’m lonely.
Like everyone-ish else.
Naturally, I’m on Bumble.
... alright I see...
>"(Because Tinder is a rape-friendly lure trap.)"
I just sat down. Who the hell starts a conversation off like this?
Re: Just let me select text
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good UX means including translations for supported languages, not telling the user "do it yourself by highlighting content". Not translating entire articles to a language you don't support has the easy remedy of letting people select the text and use third party tools to support their specific use-cases. But not including translations for your clickable content for languages that aren't supported are the literal prac…
What about unsupported languages?
Even when the language is supported I have had GDPR popups block that language selection. The text in the popup was also not selectable which made it very hard to read what I was or was not agreeing to.
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#114As a web dev, I fully agree with this, but with a huge exception: clickable text. Anything that is meant to be read as content should absolutely, without fail, be selectable and copyable (assuming appropriate permissions). But stuff like tab headers, buttons, or even text-sparse tiles - things meant for the user to click on - can, and usually should , prevent text selection. It is super annoying to be clicking back a…
It's always bothered me that links on webpages are single click to open. They should require double clicking to open (like just about everything else on a computer) and single click should be used to start selecting text, like everywhere else on a computer.
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#115On Android, long press home button activates Google Assistant that can OCR the current screen and translate immediately. Unironically one of the only two features keeping me on Android until now.
Like with all things Google, this feature wasn't available in Gemini (or only available on some devices) last I checked. With Gemini going to replace Google Assistant in the future, this is yet another useful feature that Google will be taking away from Android.
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#116I have same gripe, but for some apps that provide "non-copyable images" as feature
you're saying that you load images, even store in my cache - but simply disallow same UX you allow on other images? wtf
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same way I do: with your OS's on-screen keyboard.
Congratulations on being fluent in Hanzi, I guess, but that does not solve a problem for the vast majority of the users.
I don't even understand it; I just can recognize a character and type it in. The only time I have to do so is in looking at poorly designed firmware sites and stuff like that, but I manage when the developers do not accomodate for me.
But that's not what the topic is. The topic is HOW developers should accomodate users. And I'm simply taking the stance that preventing user selectability is a lesser evil in specific cases than universal selectability, because the former can be mitigated with less scripting overhead than the latter.
Re: Just let me select text
#118As a web dev, I fully agree with this, but with a huge exception: clickable text. Anything that is meant to be read as content should absolutely, without fail, be selectable and copyable (assuming appropriate permissions). But stuff like tab headers, buttons, or even text-sparse tiles - things meant for the user to click on - can, and usually should , prevent text selection. It is super annoying to be clicking back a…
I agree. The closer to a traditional desktop U.I. you get, the jankier selecting clickable text becomes. For a simple web form, leaving labels selectable is no big deal and probably a win. But for something trying to behave like a tabbed dialog box, it breaks navigation left and right.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's that behavior? Do you have an example of a website where selectable text makes keyboard navigation not possible? Could this be a browser problem? I can tab between links here in HN and it's perfectly also selectable.
Try to navigate inside the article, it doesn't work at all.
The article doesn't have selectable text.
Re: Just let me select text
#120As a web dev, I fully agree with this, but with a huge exception: clickable text. Anything that is meant to be read as content should absolutely, without fail, be selectable and copyable (assuming appropriate permissions). But stuff like tab headers, buttons, or even text-sparse tiles - things meant for the user to click on - can, and usually should , prevent text selection. It is super annoying to be clicking back a…
> It is super annoying to be clicking back and forth through tabs only to have some text erroneously highlight and then stay that way.
How do you do this?
> can, and usually should, prevent text selection
Please don't. You're overthinking. Be a better designer by designing less.