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284 points moebrowne | 1 comments | 31 Oct 25 16:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.244s | source

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HocusLocus ◴[31 Oct 25 20:07 UTC] No.45776149[source]▶

A whole generation of people who click all over to find places that do something. People have this problem where they feel 'proudly vested' in learning things that just weren't designed well.

10 years ago someone decided that dragging links is so much more important than selecting text, selecting text is scarcely possible. I'm going to have to fork a browser to give link-dragging the demotion it deserves. It was probably those DIV guys.

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ajmurmann ◴[31 Oct 25 21:05 UTC] No.45776693[source]▶

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Almost as bad as copying a phone number on iOS instead of calling it (no idea if this is better on Android). The eagerness of iOS to call phone numbers which almost never is the thing I want to happen, is a source of much anxiety.

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1. Shog9 ◴[31 Oct 25 21:16 UTC] No.45776795[source]▶

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Android works great - lets you select the # and then gives you a context menu with the option to call (or copy, or search).

...unless someone made the phone # a tel: protocol link, in which case it has the selection behavior of any other link. Which is mostly fine, since "copy" is a context menu option for tel: links... unless some jerk put a tel: URL in that isn't the same number as what is shown in the text of the link, in which case it's time for some crazy hoop-jumping to either copy OR call the number.

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