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Question for the flutter devs - have you ever used The Internet?

• fastball 6y ago
  Have you? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/user-select https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/user-select
  • mdoms 6y ago
    Yes I have, which is why I know text can be selected by default in every web environment.
    • fastball 6y ago
      There is no default in Flutter. Everything is a widget that you have to deliberately choose. https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/SelectableText-class.html https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/SelectableText-clas...
      • jkrems 6y ago
        If `Text` and `SelectableText` exist, I would call that an opt-in. The default is "Text" (not selectable) and a modifier can be applied to opt into using "SelectableText". It would be different if they were called "UnselectableText" and "SelectableText".
        • drusepth 6y ago
          Isn't that just semantics? Seems like every dev using Flutter for more than a few days would know that both `Text` and `SelectableText` exist and pick the one that's relevant to whatever kind of text they're adding. At that point, it's the dev's fault for making a conscious decision to make text selectable or not (if they choose wrong); not really the language's.