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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Replying to @DotProto
Doesn’t seem to be the case here? I can web inspect and easily point to the right thing without any trouble: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/03/famous-names …
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Replying to @mwichary
HM ... I'm abandoning the other thread as I look into this specific case.
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Merging threads. So far this is pretty odd.https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/877235891873341442 …
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I'm in Chrome 61 and it seems there's a ~1 pixel area at the top of a paragraph where it wraps selection to the bottom of the p tag.
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Replying to @mwichary
Huh. FWIW I couldn't repo the behavior in Firefox 54.0 or Safari 10.1.1 on macOS 10.12.5, so it does seem to be a Chrome issue.
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Thanks for testing! Filed at https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=735138 … and incorporated this info.
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