Text editing on mobile isn’t ok

Re:Text editing on mobile isn’t ok by dan-robertson on Sunday September 24, 2023 @01:34PM (#37635238)

I think internet explorer did this selection thing at one point years ago. I don’t recall chrome doing it. Firefox used to have a ‘caret browsing’ feature but people didn’t use it so it was eventually removed. So I don’t really think it’s a missed opportunity so much as a feature people didn’t sufficiently love.

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Re:Text editing on mobile isn’t ok by bombela on Sunday September 24, 2023 @04:00PM (#37636612)

Press F6 in firefox for caret browsing.

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Re:Text editing on mobile isn’t ok by savoyard on Sunday September 24, 2023 @05:37PM (#37637442)

That would be F7. The same works in Chrome.

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Re:Text editing on mobile isn’t ok by dan-robertson on Sunday September 24, 2023 @05:44PM (#37637493)

Ah I didn’t realise it still existed. I think I must have misremembered the warning as being a deprecation notice.

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Re:Text editing on mobile isn’t ok by failuser on Monday September 25, 2023 @07:53PM (#37652428)

Thanks, that comes in very useful from time to time. I thought that got disabled. Chrome did double checked that I know what I’m doing with a popup, I hope this is not a sign this will get deprecated.

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