Random stuff I just discovered in Opera 25
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I was curious with @LoremIpsum's avatar, and I tried to drag'n'drop it to see if it's really an image. But I missed and dragged his nick instead. Now, I would expect to drag aroung 'nothing', but instead I was dragging around something. I was dragging around his username, enclosed in a rounded grey box that also contained full URL to his profile page. I tested it out with other things, and it works with every link - a box with the text of the link and URL appears. Neat, but dubiously useful.
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Doesn't every browser do that?
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That also works in Chrome.
Not in Firefox, though!
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I was gonna say, I don't know about FF because I haven't used it in too long, but Chrome and IE have both done it for ages. IE7 definitely had it, possibly earlier versions too.
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Not in Firefox, though!
It doesn't look quite the same, but you can still take a link and drag it around then up to the tab bar.
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It would've been easier to post a screenshot:
I couldn't get the mouse cursor, so just pretend it's there.
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Doesn't every browser do that?
Only Chrome and browsers derived from it. (And apparently you can't paste two images into a post? IE will just drag "blakeyrat".
That also works in Chrome.Not in Firefox, though!
That's because Opera is built on Chrome now.
Hanzoed!
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IE:
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Firefox:
EDIT- or for consistency:
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On a related note, I want to find and shoot whoever decided that we are not allowed to select text from < a> elements anymore.
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Sometimes you still can, if you can find a place before or after the link to start your selection from.
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Only Chrome and browsers derived from it. (And apparently you can't paste two images into a post? IE will just drag "blakeyrat".
Yeah but the functionality is the same, it's just the visual that's different.
To non-geek the URL is just confusing. To a geek, it's unnecessary. So I'd argue that the IE version makes more sense... you take something called "blakeyrat", drag it to your bookmarks where it still says "blakeyrat" and when you click it whether on the page or from your bookmarks, it goes to the same place. No need for URLs.
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Firefox does it better than Chrome, then?
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Mm. I dunno, I'm just spitballing and knee-jerking, I obviously haven't done a usability study on it. There's a (non-zero but pretty fucking close to zero) chance that Firefox has.
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Firefox does it better than Chrome, then?
BTW, more or less the same thing happens if you drag regular text, but here's a case where (IIRC) FF gets it worse than IE, and chrome just falls down. In Chrome, you can't drag selected text. In IE and FF (IIRC) you can, but FF fades the text out drastically, making it hard to see the size. IE does the same, but doesn't fade so much, so the UI looks a bit better.
Notice how IE even draws a background so you can see roughly the whole selection--I see from my screenshot I happened to select an image as well. I don't have FF installed so I can't provide a representative screenshot.
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Now if only you could drag text in this godawful abomination of a forum ...
Or is that a trade-off you have to take for activation quote reply?
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In Chrome, you can't drag selected text.
You can on every site except Discourse. Discourse fucking with the DOM after text is selected breaks Chrome's drag&drop somehow. This was one of those bugs reported on like day 1 of Discourse that's never been fixed.
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Or is that a trade-off you have to take for activation quote reply?
It's a trade-off, yes, but only because of Discourse's mucking to do the quote reply that really shouldn't break it, but does. Turn that feature off in your preferences and it works.
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In Chrome, you can
drag selected text.
Chrome
even draws a background so you can see roughly the whole selection
Yeah, um, FTFY.
Filed under: Ransom letter style
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> even draws a background so you can see roughly the whole selection
Yeah, um, FTFY.
Dunno HOW I missed that.
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To non-geek the URL is just confusing. To a geek, it's unnecessary. So I'd argue that the IE version makes more sense... you take something called "blakeyrat", drag it to your bookmarks where it still says "blakeyrat" and when you click it whether on the page or from your bookmarks, it goes to the same place. No need for URLs.
It's not uncommon to see links labeled "blakeyrat" linking to meatspin. If you see URL, you can at least brace yourself.
