As a side note, text editing on desktop also isn't okay. Especially in the browser era, the fact that the "do command" manipulation from text editors and the "d

As a side note, text editing on desktop also isn't okay. Especially in the browser era, the fact that the "do command" manipulation from text editors and the "do command" manipulation from control panels collided violently in the browser as an application mean that when I do a simple click and drag to select text, I have no idea what's going to happen. Will I select the text? Will I start dragging the link underneath the text? Is the text an image so I start dragging the image? Will I try to activate the button that the text is actually wrapped by? Browsers could honestly use a modifier (additional mouse button or key held down) that put them in a "text selection mode," in which all other meanings of click and click-drag are switched off. That would give the user full control to excerpt text from the page regardless of its context.