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To select text in Mobile Safari you have to tap and hold, not double tap. WebKit views are only place in iOS where this is inconsistent. I suspect it is this w
by brianwillis 14y ago
To select text in Mobile Safari you have to tap and hold, not double tap. WebKit views are only place in iOS where this is inconsistent.
I suspect it is this way because double tap was reserved for zoom-to-fit in iPhone OS 1.0, and now we're stuck with it being that way.
- minikomi 14y agoI think it has more to do with apps which have some touch-tracking in place, perhaps for creating a heat map. Try copying text from a twitter post on the mobile web app or Facebook mobile web app..
- zaidf 14y agoI was referring to sites that find a way to disable tap and hold text selection, intentionally or not.
- brianwillis 14y agoInteresting. I haven't encountered this problem.
- j79 14y agoI joined a team working on a single page app that disabled text selection (via CSS user-select:none) to give it more of an "app" feel. While I understood disabling text selection on certain things, the "disable everything" approach drove me nuts. When we had a redesign of our app, I decided that was one rule that could be left out (and only applied where needed).