eager_eagle

eager_eagle, 1 year ago (edited 4 months ago)

wtf is this nitpicking

Every browser I tried does that. They’d be inconsistent if adopting a different behavior.

Idk about others, but most times I click the address bar I want to either copy the address, change it entirely, or search for something. Selecting the entire text just makes sense, especially on mobile where selecting things sucks.

eager_eagle, 1 year ago (edited 4 months ago)

Well, if they did it as you want it, a bunch of other people would complain they’re inconsistent because they’re the only browser that does that (today).

And what’s “everything else on the desktop”? I’m struggling to find more examples other than browsers and file managers. And a few popular file managers don’t even have editable text path inputs enabled by default, so you can’t even say this is a “rule”.

eager_eagle, 1 year ago (edited 4 months ago)

The problem is you’re expecting consistency between elements that should not have consistent behavior for having completely different functions.

A line of text in a PDF, in a WYSIWYG editor, text in UI labels, and text in an address bar all have different roles and should be expected to behave differently, idk why you’re surprised for this “inconsistency”.

eager_eagle, 1 year ago

Selecting the address with a single click does make sense for the reasons I listed in my first comment.

And it’s consistent across most applications that have an address bar nowadays.

It doesn’t need to be consistent with other kinds of text fields because that wouldn’t make sense.

eager_eagle, 1 year ago

I’d be more annoyed to have to click it 2 or 3 times in order to search for something.