Android can do this with a single gesture.
Just sayin' ...
Just let me select text
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Re: Just let me select text
#392I 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…
The modern web has been dissuading me of this habit. I get unreasonably angry when I select some text, only for an engagement pop up to appear, demanding that my selected text be shared with the world via social media. No, how I interact with the page is a private affair.
substack is the biggest culprit in this.
Re: Just let me select text
#393I 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…
> I have a habit of selecting and highlighting text on computer screens, while reading. "There are dozens of us!"
Plus knocking on the desk when I finish a sentence, too.
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#394Earlier quoted context omitted.
> nor "ironic", but an intentional effort to demonstrate how annoying That would in fact be a deliberate use of irony.
I'm reminded of the Archer scene where he explains irony (in the middle of a car chase / gunfight), and then Pam asks: > Oh. Okay, so then what's satire? > Nobody really knows!
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#395On my iPhone I end up using a screenshot to select text via OCR and copy it from there. It’s frustrating when apps like Facebook won’t let you copy and paste stuff into Google Maps from a birthday invite.
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#396Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know why so many comments are discussing "if it's intentional troll or hypocrisy", when it takes 10 seconds to check one of the other blog posts and see if the text there is selectable :(
Because people don't understand what a joke is sometimes, even on that's obvious like this.
Or some people just have a desire to vent of lots of that anger boiling inside them and are just looking for a excuse to shout at something ..
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#397Yet I can't select text on this very blog.
Given that text is selectable elsewhere on the site, I suspect that the author is trying to make a point by that.
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#398I 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…
I am not alone in this universe???
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#399100% agree and living in a foreign country I have found myself completely reliant on the "circle to search" feature on Android as I'm far too often blocked by text protection and the instant translate is very handy. This has already been mentioned in other comments and I appreciate it is a circumvention of the problem. Just let me circle to search though also (sometimes it is blocked).
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#400As 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 want to share which tabs on this tabpanel are the most interesting for a friend of mine to read. How would you suggest I get their labels?