Most of the time when I double tap a word in a reply on mobile, it highlights the word as I’d expect. Sometimes though, it just zooms in and out instead. I had this happen on another install, but they were way out of date so I wrote it off as an old bug that had already been fixed. However, I just h…

[image] codinghorror: Also do you mean in an editor area or regular page text? The editor. I thought using the word “reply” would make that clear but I see now that that term I still ambiguous. Sorry for the confusion. [image] codinghorror: Why do that? Tap and hold works to select a wor…

Here’s a video from here on meta for reference. Every time the page jumps up or zooms in/out I’m double tapping to try to highlight a word.

I feel like anything other than tap-and-hold is intentionally swimming upstream. :man_shrugging:

Double tapping in inputs/text areas to highlight on iOS seems to be the expected behavior everywhere. Double tapping results in highlighting the tapped word in messages, spotlight search, Safari search, renaming a folder, settings search, etc. Additionally, since we are talking about inputs on Safar…

[image] seanblue: After closing the tab and reopening it again though, it starting working again. So this is an intermittent thing? I just don’t see double or triple or quad or penta tapping as a primary user activity. Especially since the simpler, and more mobile-centric “tap and hold” is av…

[image] codinghorror: So this is an intermittent thing? It is intermittent, though not that rare. Might happen once every day or two. Maybe a bit more. But sometimes closing the tab and reopening it doesn’t help, so maybe it’s from some kind of race condition on page load. [image] codingh…

Double tap to highlight in reply (iOS Safari)

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) August 14, 2019, 10:13pm 2

Why do that? Tap and hold works to select a word and avoids the awful desktop mouse paradigm of “double clicking”.

Also do you mean in an editor area or regular page text?

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