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It's not just about translations, either. Sometimes you want to document or describe to someone where something is on a site. "Click on FooBar, then in the popu
by TeMPOraL 1y ago
It's not just about translations, either. Sometimes you want to document or describe to someone where something is on a site. "Click on FooBar, then in the popup saying <<Are you sure FooBar is the right Frob>> check the <<Cheesy Cheese Burger>> checkbox and click OK.
It's much less frustrating when you can copy-paste the damned labels straight off the site/app, than retyping them and hoping you didn't misspell FooBar as FooBaz, leading the other person into deeper trouble rather than helping.
- johnisgood 1y agoI actually opened the browser's Developer Tools and used the Elements panel to copy text from the button elements. Many times.
- TeMPOraL 1y agoSo did I. And since I don't do webdev for a living, most of my quite frequent use of Developer Tools is to work around this kind of nonsense - non-copyable text, obscured text, layout breakage, etc. Second biggest use case is to unbreak web forms that fail silently or for bogus reasons. This happens surprisingly often.