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Re:I replaced my native iOS app with a cross platform web ap... by brundolf on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @12:20AM (#31244573)
Yeah. You can prevent that too with a CSS property, but again, it’s not the default; you have to have enough time and attention to detail to go out of your way and handle it
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Re:I replaced my native iOS app with a cross platform web ap... by hedora on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @12:48AM (#31244751)
My favorite feature in recent iOS is that you can defeat that CSS property by taking a screenshot and letting the phone OCR the image, then copy paste from the result.

Disabling copy is abused by all sorts of apps. (Yelp street addresses are a prime offender.).

I’m not convinced allowing it to be disabled is a net positive.

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Re:I replaced my native iOS app with a cross platform web ap... by brundolf on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @12:51AM (#31244768)
It’s fairly essential for things like buttons and tabs that get tapped all the time and have mostly non-content text. But it does need to be used sparingly
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