Text is a universal medium. And yet we try to prevent users of our UIs from using it. Let’s not.
  • m_‮f@discuss.onlineEnglish
    31·
    14 days ago

    Disable user-select: none; (and variants) on body to be able to select text again. I like the idea of a blog post that calls out something annoying and demonstrates the annoyance inline, though

    • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      30·
      14 days ago

      I have a bookmarklet to enable text selection on any web page that tries to block it that way.

      Here it is for your convenience. Bookmark it and give a try on the linked blog post:

      javascript:document.styleSheets[0].insertRule("* { user-select:text !important }", 1);

      Can’t remember where I swiped that from. Probably some ancient StackOverflow thread.

      • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        12·
        14 days ago

        WTF‽ I’m a web dev for 5 years, 8 if you count university, and I’ve never heard about bookmarklets. Why would that even begin to work?

        Man, this is so amazing!

        • TehPers@beehaw.orgEnglish
          11·
          14 days ago

          Browsers have supported the javascript: scheme for a long time, so I guess it just abuses that.

        • bluespin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          13 days ago

          We run one for our product and it’s been teetering on the edge of extinction for a while. Google keeps saying they’re going to kill them and going back on the decision

  • wischi@programming.dev
    16·
    14 days ago

    I can’t select the text on this article (mobile). I’m not sure if that’s on purpose or just ironic?

  • setsubyou@lemmy.world
    4·
    14 days ago

    I have to do a bunch of relatively unsurmountable steps to do what should’ve taken half a minute. Like screenshot the profile and scrape the text with iOS Photos text recognition.

    The iOS workaround isn’t quite as unsurmountable as you don’t have to go through the Photos app at all. You can enter text selection mode directly from the screenshot without even saving it or leaving the app you’re in. And since iOS will look up any word you can select in the system dictionary and also translate any text you can select, you can do these things right there too.

    That said I did once make a shortcut that lets me triple tap the back of my phone to pop up a text version of everything on screen that the iOS OCR detects. Not sure what I did that for though, I don’t really use it.

  • Ŝan@piefed.zipEnglish
    3·
    14 days ago

    Most of it’s good, and I agree. He’s advocating switching everyþing to webp instead of jxl or sticking wiþ png, which is pure Google narrative and not constructive.