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It also brakes the rule that all text should be selectable (so that people can e.g. copy past it to an search engine).

(The laws titles are not selectable on desktop/linux/firefox.)

Furthermore the short description of the laws does sometimes subtle differ from the actual long descriptions in ways which make major differences about how "correct" that law is.



This is the worst goddamn thing about Spotify.

Oh, wanna search for a cool band outside our platform, but there name is in Chinese or something else you don't have an IME for? TOO BAD, GOTTA INSPECT ELEMENT.


They are selectable on desktop/mac/firefox. However they are links, so you have to start dragging the cursor from next to the link.


Let me rephrase:

They are not easily selectable.

I mean who expects the whole card to act as a link and as such need special handling wrt. selecting text? Especially if there is an explicit "link button" to navigate to the "more details view" just besides the card.

The funny thing is that while for some users the whole card acting as a single hyperlink is intuitive (even through there is no indication that it does) for others it isn't intuitive at all and at most they would expect it to behave like a normal tile (it looks like a title) .

The logo on the card being clickable and being a hyperlink on the other hand is probably expected by much more people.


Fitts's law taken to the extreme.


On Windows you can select text in hyperlinks if you hold down the alt key before you click and drag to select the text.


Looks like I'm one of today's lucky 10000.


Good catch. I can verify this is also the behaviour on Linux.


Un-selectable text on pages makes me so unreasonably angry.




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