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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I really dont know. I dont select text while I read it? I get the frustration but what's the majority? If your in the minority I dont think you should be ignored but also I dont know how they cater to everyone.

I say, the majority adopt something they adopt it because that's how the majority like it. If the majority disagrees make changes to suit their needs. If the resources exist to cater to everyone, cater to everyone. If not, as a member of the minority, its on you to find a work around or move on.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

How often do you actually use a pop-up that comes up when selecting text? And is it really more convenient than selecting followed by a right click, or pressing a shortcut?

Even if the people who select text while reading are in the minority, this post shows it’s a large minority. And I’m quite convinced that the number of times such a pop-up is used, is also a minority.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

It's as annoying as the floating context bar in Illustrator and Photoshop. And i dont even typically select text while reading it

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

So true. Please hear us.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As someone who doesn't do this, I can only guess it's like holding your book mark parallel under the lines in a book as you read it, which I thought was fairly uncommon. Apparently a bunch of people read this way?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It makes more sense on monitors with large blocks of text or large paragraphs. With a monitor so big relative to a book, and scrolling making it easy to lose where you were, it can sometimes be tough for folks to read through huge chunks. Some people select chunks of text to help break up those monoliths into manageable bites along with putting a clear marker for where they are if they scroll or otherwise lose their place..

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I use a system at work that is 100% web based. I have 2 4k monitors in my desk. Why are the apps formatted for viewing on a phone? I've gotten to the point of hacking the CSS on every page just to make things usable.

At the last version upgrade, the developers made some changes to the interface. They couldn't be bothered to change the existing CSS, so they just put !important on all the new stuff.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's kind of screwed to say. But a lot of people entering the work force grew up with phones and tablets as their main computer. It's the mind set they have that everything uses touch interfaces.

I'm not saying everyone or even most, but for a good portion it's their default computer experience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The first generation was just that bad ignoring that some people wanted to browse the web through their mobile.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

80% population have access to mobile phones.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Multiple windows. Most people dislike 2 meter wide text blocks.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most people people dislike 10x10 cm text windows when programming/editing HTML/reading SQL dumps.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most people dislike

[citation needed]

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago

Most people

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mobile first rule.

And then lazy port to desktop.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"it's mobile first!"

"And desktop second, right?"

"What's desktop?"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“What's a desktop?”

At the start of Covid, we had to start working from home. Our Chief Security Idiot thought that was a good time to impose measures that made it impossible to reboot a computer without physical access. When I questioned how that would work with my desktop, which stayed in the office building that I couldn’t legally access, he kept saying I had to take the “laptop” with me. I told him several times that it was a desktop, but he just couldn’t understand until my boss got involved.

That was my first run-in with our idiot-in-charge-of-security, and it only got worse after that.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

The fact that I couldn't select text on this post because it's a completely unnecessary graphic kind of makes me hate you.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To anyone who does this, I've found browser extensions for both Chrome and Firefox called reading ruler or something like that, that will basically create a highlighted horizontal column wherever your mouse cursor is at, making it much easier to read text without having to manually select it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The point is not to make it easier to read, the point is to click on and select the text.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

finally someone who gets it

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