All I can say is that it is kinda cathartic that someone other than me is experiencing this nightmare.
Also, this pages where it is impossible to select any text at all.
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All I can say is that it is kinda cathartic that someone other than me is experiencing this nightmare.
Also, this pages where it is impossible to select any text at all.
Also, this pages where it is impossible to select any text at all.
On android, you can still select text on those pages from the switch apps screen (swipe up from the bottom, hold, then release on Pixels). Found that workaround on accident lol
That seems to be OCR based though. Sometimes when I do it like that I get complete gibberish
<p>It's gonna be hot today!</p>
but in Modern™ Reactive™ Web Frameworks, you'll end up with <div><div><p><span>It's gonna be</span><span>hot</span><span>today!</span></p></div></div>
. Things get much worse when images get involved, or when (SVG) icons get inserted, or when panels start floating over each other, or when someone uses ::before
or :;after
to add units. Browsers try to make all of this flow like a single block of text, but it's not easy.My personal solution: drag the text up into view, then swipe up for the task switcher, then use the Google Lens style text selection that's built into the task switcher to select the text. It's using OCR rather than browser parsing and that's generally more reliable (though it makes mistakes with some fonts and is quite suboptimal for battery life).
[1]: the exact pixel count depends on the DPI of you phone, these are "CSS pixels"