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·
    18 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·
      18 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·
        18 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·
          18 days ago

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

        • bluespin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          17 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