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Nice! But why is text selection disabled on the homepage?
by anentropic 5y ago
Nice!
But why is text selection disabled on the homepage?
- validuser 5y agoit's got this css: html,body { user-select: none; }
- TheMode 5y agoMakes me remember all those blogs disabling text selection to prevent people from "stealing" their work. Which is just terrible UX for people using it for reading, I generally just exit the website immediately. Please, never do that.
- anentropic 5y agoyeah I turned that off in dev tools, but why author it that way in the first place, what possible motivation...?
- senko 5y agoPossibly to prevent fast clicks being registered as double-click user select, but with a too general a target.
- simion314 5y agoYeah, it triggers me since I need to select the text to then have it read to me by my TTS. I blame designers (and sometimes lazy devs), so anyone that does this care to explain why? AFAIK you should only disable text in HTML in your custom widget like if you create your own button or menu.
- microgilles 5y agoI just fixed it! It was disabled globally because text selection causes different problems with clickable / drawable / draggable parts of the UI. microStudio works as a single-page app. Text selection is now enabled on the "home page" content.
- anentropic 5y agoThanks! I like to bookmark interesting pages in a notes app, so usually I copy and paste some text from them to go with the link