Author: Ged
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2016 8:50 am (GMT -6)
Lefteous has basically answered for me. I also fully agree with both of you and your nice wiki chart that simply clicking should not destroy selection.
But I'd also like to revisit my first suggestion of differentiating vertical/horizontal initial dragging too.
I got this idea from the old abandoned Opera where you can select part of the text in a link easily by making the initial dragging motion horizontal. If you want to drag/drop the link you start dragging vertically instead (of course you can then move in any direction after the initial dragging motion).
Selecting part of a link as text, like just the word abandoned in my link above is much more difficult in modern browsers than it is in Opera 12. Feel free to download and try for yourselves. It works very well IMHO.
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2016 8:50 am (GMT -6)
Lefteous has basically answered for me. I also fully agree with both of you and your nice wiki chart that simply clicking should not destroy selection.
But I'd also like to revisit my first suggestion of differentiating vertical/horizontal initial dragging too.
I got this idea from the old abandoned Opera where you can select part of the text in a link easily by making the initial dragging motion horizontal. If you want to drag/drop the link you start dragging vertically instead (of course you can then move in any direction after the initial dragging motion).
Selecting part of a link as text, like just the word abandoned in my link above is much more difficult in modern browsers than it is in Opera 12. Feel free to download and try for yourselves. It works very well IMHO.