It's one of the reasons I hate surfing snoops. I'd spend a lot more time there if I could highlight when I'm reading.
Poll: Do you select text while reading?
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Re: Poll: Do you select text while reading?
#42Interesting! I've never heard of this or even seen anyone do it.
I've watched people who do this (highlighting text and moving the cursor around while reading) and it bugs the heck out of me. I wonder if there's some kind of app to be made for these people, so that text moves around or changes color when their eyes track toward the text. (This would be horrible, to my taste, but you never know)
I worked for a guy who would sit there selecting bits of text on and off while showing me some web page. I wanted to grab the mouse, wrench it from his computer and stomp on it. If it's the kind of thing that floats your boat, fine, to each his own, but don't make other people watch.
Re: Poll: Do you select text while reading?
#43I just spastically double-click words all over the page while I'm reading. No real rhyme or reason to it, it doesn't help me read or anything. It's mostly just an unconscious tick.
I do it too. Some sites (nytimes) trigger actions on the select that drive me crazy. In retrospect, that's probably when I noticed that I was doing it.
Re: Poll: Do you select text while reading?
#44I don't do this. I feel left out now
Re: Poll: Do you select text while reading?
#45I just spastically double-click words all over the page while I'm reading. No real rhyme or reason to it, it doesn't help me read or anything. It's mostly just an unconscious tick.
This gets annoying with sites that have actions defined when you click on words, or bring up a popup window when you click, etc. :(
I also hate when clicking in "empty" space takes me to an advertiser's site.
Re: Poll: Do you select text while reading?
#46Yes, to track my reading position.
Re: Poll: Do you select text while reading?
#47No idea why I do it. I think I just like to do something with my hands.
Re: Poll: Do you select text while reading?
#48When using a Chrome browser with adblock and flashblock and HTTPS, and JS disabled, sometimes text isn't where it was designed to be. Sometimes text covers images or runs into other text, and selecting is necessary to be able to read it.
if you cripple the browser, what do you expect? If you disable JS you might as well just not bother with the web.
Re: Poll: Do you select text while reading?
#49Yes, but sometimes like difficult papers and articles.
Re: Poll: Do you select text while reading?
#50Sometimes as a bookmark. Mostly however, because lines are too long (I will sometimes resize the browser to fix this).