Share post URL text displaying as link on touch devices

[jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld)]

This has come up before…

Links to posts aren't auto-selected reliably

When clicking the share-button on a posts, the links is helpfully selected for easy copying: [image] However, this stops working most of the time as soon as I click on anything on the page, e.g. the white background. Afterwards, the popups still open, but without the text being preselected. Reloading the page temporarily fixes this. I’m running Chrome Version 48.0.2564.109 m (64-bit)

I previously shared my thoughts on non-mobile touch devices here:

User Experience on Discourse with optional touch-input

Continuing the discussion from here, here, here, and here… All the topics linked above have in common that there are issues with Discourse, generally related to UX, when a using Discourse on a system that has touch, but primarily is interacted with via keyboard and mouse. First, it is my understanding (according to @codinghorror) that it is not possible with JS and HTML to detect this type of system, separately from any other system that has a touch input. With that out of the way, I would li…