Yes, Goodreads are next in line to fix this. Whenever I want to copy the name of the book from my read list, so I can purchase it, I can't copy??? Wasn't Goodreads made by book lovers for book lovers? Now it seems like a monopoly app that reached the network effects and DOES NOT CARE anymore.
Just let me select text
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Re: Just let me select text
#382Many mobile apps encounter this because React Native still doesn't have a good solution for selectable text [0].
Workarounds exist [1], but aren't great for text that spans multiple lines and styles.
[0] https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/13938
[1] https://github.com/bluesky-social/react-native-uitextview
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#383I have a habit of selecting and highlighting text on computer screens, while reading. I have no issues tracking lines usually, but somehow I still select and highlight. Maybe it is just easier to track lines this way. When I see some web page, that prevents this, then that website gets a -50 reputation score out of 100 in my book. So if the site is perfect in every other way (almost no site is) then -50 still makes i…
Well, yet another compulsive selector here, but:
Similarly I get annoyed, if every pixel is some clickable action trigger.
This is the worst. It permeates all kind of GUIs. Windows has this mini preview windows that pop up when you're hovering over the apps in the taskbar. Also if you accidentally hover over them, all the windows are minimized except the one previewed.
Microsoft has systematically terminated every single way of disabling this idiocy.
Using one Windows inside another (vbox) at work is causing me PTSD. I'm no proud of it, but I think I'd use physical violence if I could confront the culprit.
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#384Interesting choice of example. I would probably have gone with the PayPal or eBay apps, which (on iOS at least) still refuse to let you select the text from the address you have to send the item you’ve sold to.
Yeah if someone has their bumble bio in a language you don't understand, then well... let's say you're not exactly their target audience.
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#385Given that this page has the following styles which aren't applied anywhere else on the blog: body { -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none; } I think it's safe to assume that being unable to select text on this page is not unintentional, as several comments here assume, nor "ironic", but an intentional effort to demonstrate how annoyin…
Yep, it's clearly deliberate. It's also annoying enough that I'm not reading the text of the blog.
I hope the author doesn't have any point beyond: "it's annoying to disable text selection"
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#386The problem I face with building web apps where the elements are draggable or clickable, is that the browser also selects the text. The easiest solution is to disable text selection. But I’d love to know if there’s a better solution to keep text selection somehow.
This is probably the issue in apps like Bumble—trying to keep the interface ultra simple and clean. Unfortunately the makers of apps like this are thinking in large numbers and not really considering issues like translation.
It may also be to make it harder for users to slip in copy-and-paste references to material on other sites for spam or other purposes. Occasionally I'll see someone list an Instagram or Snapchat ID on a dating site, and they're often doing something at least semi-dodgy.
Another issue might be reducing profile plagiarism.
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#387A very similar issue is the lack of support for mmb "open tab in new background tab"-click in pages like Twitter. You have to click on the post and open the page for it, instead of deferring the use of that page to later (when more got opened in the background, starting from the main feed).
Or you can't just mmb-click the "Trending in..." clickable to open a trend in a background tab.
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#388As 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…
No, text should be selectable, even when links. The amount of times I've accidentally highlighted instead of clicking? Maybe a couple? The amount of times that frustrated or confused me? Absolutely zero. I want to select the text of a link and copy the text of a link. I want to do this but I run into issues _daily_, esp. on mobile. PagerDuty app, I'm looking at you! Mobile seems to assume that you, in no world ever,…
Double click selects text. What to do with web app elements where people double click or rapidly click?
Re: Just let me select text
#389As 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…
As long as you still offer an easy way to highlight the button text.
Triple-click (at least in FF on Linux) highlights paragraphs or other block-elements contents; it should be allowed on things where a single-click does navigation. This would be very out of the way for normal users, but would allow easily and quickly highlighting (and copying) parts of the interface.
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#390Given that this page has the following styles which aren't applied anywhere else on the blog: body { -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none; } I think it's safe to assume that being unable to select text on this page is not unintentional, as several comments here assume, nor "ironic", but an intentional effort to demonstrate how annoyin…
Are people these days so dense (i.e. stupid) they couldn't figure out it was a joke by the author?
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand the joke. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of CSS the joke will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also the author's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his post - his personal philosophy draws heavily from Chris Coyier's classic blogs, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of this joke, to realise that it's not just funny - it says something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who criticise being unable to select text within the blog post truly ARE idiots. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Bologov's genius wit unfolds itself in their browsers. What fools.. how I pity them.
And yes, by the way, i DO have a tattoo of the Lobotomized Owl selector. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid.