Does anyone have a good answer to why selecting text in the browser is so frustrating and often broken? (Genuinely honest question.)pic.twitter.com/QSd4VRZTtL
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Replying to @mwichary
Floats and other positioning tricks make it so when dragging, your mouse moves from text to above an element in a different part of the DOM
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Say you meant so select text in elements 80 & 79, as you move the browser sees your mouse over 80, then there's a gap where it's now over 2…
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Replying to @DotProto
Got it. It seems it wouldn’t be hard to make the heuristics much better with some fine tuning, taking into account user intent…
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…rather than just blind trust in the DOM.
11:45 AM - 20 Jun 2017
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